Justice Antonin Scalia says most lawyers who appear before the U.S. Supreme Court are so brilliant that he worries they should be doing something more productive.
Justice Clarence Thomas recalled the announcement of his appointment to the Supreme Court as being like a “near death experience” in a lecture at Southern Methodist University on Wednesday evening.
A New York City man facing robbery charges escaped from the 12th floor of a Manhattan courthouse during a pretrial hearing today by simply walking out, surveillance footage shows.
Drug courts were created 30 years ago to offer offenders with substance abuse problems an alternative to jail. But now criminal defense lawyers say the drug courts need reform in…
Judge Scott Stephens oversees a lot of divorce cases. But because the parties routinely represent themselves and are simply seeking a legal end to the relationship in his Tampa, Fla.,…
Carlos Moreno is the only justice on the California Supreme Court to marry a gay couple, and the only justice who dissented from a decision last May upholding a ballot…
Scholars considering the reason for the U.S. Supreme Court’s declining docket should look to the certiorari voting records of five justices appointed between 1986 and 1993, according to a research…
A judge who teaches a trial techniques class at the University at Buffalo law school says seven students who didn’t listen to him ended up saving his life.