Multiple technology problems delayed action on a computer glitch that exposed confidential case information in California’s Sacramento County, according to the court’s presiding judge.
The deans of more than a third of the nation’s law schools have endorsed President Barack Obama’s nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for a seat on the United States…
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may be the wealthiest member of the U.S. Supreme Court, while Justice Sonia Sotomayor may owe more than she has in her checking and savings accounts.
Almost a year after the death of Michael Jackson, the personal physician charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly administering a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic is still practicing medicine…
When lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union filed a March lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of practices in Rhode Island’s truancy courts, the media relations effort cranked into high gear.
A Washington state judge whose daughter is a friend of Amanda Knox is facing a legal ethics case for writing on King County court stationery to the Italian judges overseeing…
Unhappy with the court-appointed defense lawyers in his capital murder case, Eric DeShann Floyd told a Pennsylvania judge Monday that he’d rather be executed than continue with his current attorneys.
An ethics panel has given the green light to New York judges who wish to alleviate the paucity of pay raises for the past 12 years by moonlighting as artists.
A Los Angeles judge considering fraud allegations in a lawsuit by Nicaraguan banana workers says she has been threatened, and so have witnesses in the case.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor looked to her Italian colleague for pronunciation help on Monday when announcing her decision in a case involving civil procedure and an Italian cruise line.
A man identified by authorities as a suspect in the courtroom slayings yesterday of a Brussels magistrate judge and a court clerk has been arrested in a Belgium park.