Asked to make a recommendation to the state’s top court about allegations that two corrupt judges might have influenced the result of a $3.5 million libel verdict against a Pennsylvania…
After a Friday ruling by Pakistan’s supreme court that former President Pervez Musharraf acted illegally by imposing emergency rule in November 2007, the country’s current president has suspended 76 judges…
A Texas judge facing ethics charges for refusing to accept a late-filed emergency appeal to delay an inmate’s imminent execution is targeting defense lawyers who sought…
A federal judge has rejected a plea deal that calls for 87-month sentences for two Pennsylvania judges who pleaded guilty in an alleged scheme to steer juveniles to for-profit detention…
A Mississippi judge pleaded guilty to a federal obstruction charge and resigned his seat on the bench yesterday, in exchange for a recommended 18-month prison sentence.
It appears that much-publicized litigation brought by an administrative law judge in Washington, D.C., over a dry cleaner’s alleged loss of his suit trousers and the jurist’s subsequent loss of…
Despite a defense lawyer’s argument that extremist blogger Hal Turner isn’t a danger to others and even once alerted authorities to a potential assassination plot against President Barack Obama, a…
Casting their ballots along party lines, the Senate Judiciary Committee today voted 13-6 to endorse Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination by President Barack Obama for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.