Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she has had to adjust to a “hurricane” of public attention since her appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, but she has been touched by the…
An experimental program adopted Thursday by the judicial council for the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will allow televised civil bench trials, on a case-by-case basis.
In an escalating yearlong war between government officials in Arizona’s Maricopa County, the sheriff and a local prosecutor are now accusing all members of the governing body, at least four…
A recent legal ethics opinion concerning Florida judges made clear that they “friend”on Facebook at their peril lawyers who appear in their courtrooms.
As the trial of a Texas judge begins, over a bad date with a defendant who had a drunken-driving case pending in his court, his lawyers are blaming the woman…
Citizens filed 6,000 misconduct complaints against federal judges in the last decade, but only seven faced formal disciplinary action, a newspaper investigation has found.
Despite an apparent pleading error by the appellants’ counsel, a federal appeals court today reversed the federal program bribery convictions of two Mississippi judges and a trial lawyer. This is…
An Ohio judge’s e-mails to a newspaper about an alleged serial murderer whose case he was later assigned have reportedly led him to step down from the upcoming trial.
Robert H. Henry, chief judge of the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, stunned colleagues, friends and staff Thursday when he announced that he’ll give up his lifetime federal…
A judge and judge-elect in Montgomery County, Pa., have created a stir, but haven’t broken any nepotism rules by hiring their wives to serve as their secretaries.