Justice Anthony M. Kennedy says he didn’t realize a new staffer had demanded the right to review a story about his October speech to New York City school students.
A federal judge in Louisiana racked up $150,000 in credit card debt, largely to cover his gambling, as he routinely solicited cash and gifts from lawyers appearing before him, witnesses…
President Obama is lagging behind his predecessor in making judicial nominations, disappointing liberals who had hoped to see a new federal judiciary quickly take shape.
Describing a controversial federal judge’s accounting for a $33.8 million trust as “curious,” the 9th Circuit today called for another judge to provide an accounting of how the money was…
The Georgia Supreme Court quickly intervened yesterday after a Fulton County judge sent an assistant district attorney to jail and then threatened her boss with contempt for a “ruckus” that…
Since 1872, the U.S. Supreme Court has held the line on judicial immunity, essentially ruling that jurists should be protected from civil litigation over their decisions on the bench no…
A jury in an Arkansas capital case today found defendant Curtis Lavelle Vance guilty in the 2008 rape-murder of a well-known television personality, anchorwoman Anne Pressly of KATV.
Repeated “frivolous” comments by a Texas judge during domestic violence hearings “trivialize” the seriousness of the cases and demonstrate a “deep-seated bias” that requires the recusal of criminal Court-at-Law Judge…
Warning to Chicago lawyers: Judge Diane Gordon Cannon of the Cook County Circuit Court does not like sarcasm in your briefs. And if you represent the petitioner, your brief should…
U.S. Supreme Court justices have been the victim of some unfortunate misquotes in recent news accounts of their speeches. Now the office of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is doing something…