A Florida ethics opinion says judges may post comments and other materials on social networking sites, but they shouldn’t friend lawyers who may appear before them.
A sitting Arizona judge has been charged with three major felonies, apparently at least partly in connection with his court rulings concerning a battle among local officials for control of…
A new Massachusetts court rule allows judges to explain their decisions after the fact—in supplemental memoranda, rather than interviews with the press.
The controversial former Las Vegas judge who was banned from the bench for belittling staff has been ordered to pay $50,000 to a former assistant for defaming her.
A deadlocked jury forced a mistrial today in the case of a so-called hate blogger accused of threatening three federal appeals court judges in an Internet tirade over an opinion…
A Phoenix-area courtroom officer who took a public defender’s document is in jail for refusing to apologize, but it’s not clear if he is in a jail cell.
Michael T. Toole, a judge in Luzerne County, Pa., was charged today with honest services fraud and filing a false tax return, and he was also suspended from judicial duties…
A Phoenix-area courtroom officer who inexplicably took paperwork from a defense lawyer’s files mid-hearing in October has reported to jail rather than apologize.
The chief judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals faced mounting criticism and ethics charges over her refusal to accept a late emergency death-penalty appeal…
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was so eager to question a lawyer in a case involving the discharge of student loan debt that she ended up apologizing for interrupting his response to…
Regarding “No More Kabuki Confirmations,” October, about U.S. Supreme Court nominees and better ways of handling this challenge, I offer my view as one recently…