Admittedly making a sidebar remark about a “bund meeting” after a plaintiffs lawyer requested time off during trial to attend a Passover seder has put a New Jersey judge in…
Thousands of juvenile convictions tainted by the work of a corrupt Pennsylvania judge should be dismissed and not retried, a judge appointed by the state supreme court recommended today.
A cigarette lighter designed to look like a pistol created a major incident at a Florida courthouse earlier this month after a woman forgot it was in her bag and…
Less than two years ago, the former leader of Pakistan disbanded much of the country’s top court in what many saw as a blatant move to solidify his own political…
Thirty candidates have applied to be a federal magistrate judge hearing mostly misdemeanor cases while serving in a small courthouse that is nothing more than a gray clapboard structure.
A proposed $33 million settlement by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve allegations that the Bank of America didn’t disclose to investors that it was to pay $3…
Updated: A spectator in an Illinois courtroom who let out a loud yawn as his cousin was being sentenced for a felony drug charge soon found himself in jail.
Used by some Republican senators as a rallying cry against the confirmation of new U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, her controversial “wise Latina” comment is now being proclaimed by…
After pleading guilty in federal court last year to transporting prostitutes across state lines to a meeting of a national men’s fraternal club of which he is…
Corrected: President Obama has nominated a lawyer known for her ERISA expertise and a federal judge from Pennsylvania for spots on two federal appeals courts.