Justice Antonin Scalia likes to listen to Bach when he is drafting his opinions and has baroque music on his iPod for airplane rides populated by chatty adolescents.
Ordered to reconsider his earlier opinion discharging the $82,000 student loan debt of a 65-year-old unemployed law school graduate, an obviously annoyed bankruptcy judge has granted Denise Bronsdon the same…
An Indiana judge acquitted last week of obstruction of justice is fighting a related judicial misconduct complaint stemming from a shooting at her home.
A divided U.S. Supreme Court this afternoon upheld an earlier ban on a planned broadcast of an ongoing federal trial in California concerning a challenge to the…
After a closed hearing, a Wichita, Kan., judge has ruled the media will be allowed to observe part of the jury selection process in the trial of a man accused…
The San Francisco federal judge presiding in a suit that challenges California’s ban on gay marriage has a libertarian streak that has dismayed some conservatives.
Two justices were quick to react when Solicitor General Elena Kagan made a slipup in oral arguments yesterday on the federal government’s power to commit sexually dangerous persons.
University of Michigan law professor Richard Friedman was trying to define the scope of the confrontation clause in oral arguments yesterday when he was called…
Updated: The U.S. Judicial Conference had a request for Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Please “consider” conference policy barring broadcast of federal trials.
Planned budget cuts for Los Angeles courts over the next four years could trigger $30 billion in lost output for the local economy and result in 150,000 lost jobs, a…
When President Barack Obama was searching for a new U.S. Supreme Court justice, he made clear that he was looking for someone with real-world experience.
In an unusual move intended to give the Arizona Supreme Court time to weigh in on the controversial bribery and obstruction prosecution of a state-court judge over his court rulings,…
Those interested in the trial challenging California’s ban on gay marriage beginning Monday can catch a delayed broadcast of the proceedings on YouTube.