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The Florida Supreme Court is suspending a Broward County judge without pay for grabbing a courthouse employee by the neck and shaking him.

U.S. District Judge Manuel Real, who was an active judge for five decades and desegregated schools in Southern California, has died, the courts said. He was 95.

U.S. District Judge Manuel Real, who was an active judge for five decades and desegregated schools in Southern California, has died, the courts said. He was 95.

U.S. Senator Susan Collins, R., Maine, gave a speech in the Senate on Friday to explain why she would vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

In announcing she would vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Sen. Susan Collins said Judges Kavanaugh and Merrick Garland “voted the same way in 93 percent of cases they heard together” on the federal appeals court in the District of Columbia. This is evidence, she said, that Kavanaugh is “more of a centrist” than his critics say.

In an extraordinary move, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx did something Monday which isn’t often done in Chicago’s criminal justice system.

The father of a 3-year-old boy found dead in a filthy New Mexico compound and his partner pleaded not guilty Wednesday to new charges of child abuse resulting in death after lesser charges were dismissed against them and other members of their extended family as the result of a deadline missed by prosecutors.

The suspected child abductor found last week with 11 children and four other adults at a squalid New Mexico compound had trained at least one of the minors to use an assault rifle in preparation for a school shooting, prosecutors said in court documents filed on Wednesday. The children, who officials have said were between the ages of 1 and...

Federal judges in New York have taken the unusual step of voting to keep U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman in his job as the chief prosecutor in Manhattan in the absence of a nomination by President Donald Trump. Berman’s Jan. 3 interim appointment by the Justice Department to oversee an office of over 220 prosecutors was set to expire May 4....

A Broward judge is facing intense criticism after video shows her berating an inmate with chronic lung disease and asthma during a court appearance.

Sixteen unseemly pooches vied for the infamous title of World’s Ugliest Dog at the Sonoma-Marin Fair contest Friday.

The city will close one of nine Rikers Island jails in the summer as part of a plan to shut down the troubled jail complex, the mayor announced on Tuesday.

The chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday that he has opened a misconduct inquiry into a judge accused of inappropriate sexual conduct and comments by six women. Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Sidney R. Thomas issued the order based on allegations against Judge Alex Kozinski in a Dec. 8 Washington Post article.

The question of whether federal agents display racial bias by staging phony drug stash-house stings overwhelmingly in black neighborhoods is the focus of hearings beginning Thursday in Chicago and could determine whether agencies curtail or even abandon their use nationwide.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says he wants to shut the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says he wants to shut the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex.

The Rhode Island Family Court has opened a “baby court” to help struggling first-time parents whose cases involve state intervention.

Basketball legend Michael Jordan now owns his Chinese name, after China’s highest court sided with him Thursday following a years long legal battle over a trademark dispute. The former NBA star has fought a Chinese sportswear maker since 2012 over the name “Qiaodan,” pronounced “Cheeow-dan,” the transliteration of “Jordan” in Mandarin. Qiaodan Sports, a company based in southern China, had...

Sen. Mark Kirk will meet with President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland Tuesday.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s disclosure of nearly 200 pages of emails from a private Google account could become key evidence in an ongoing lawsuit that charges that the governor flouted the state’s public records law.