A Detroit judge threw the mother of a drunk driver being sentenced for killing a man out of her courtroom and into jail after she laughed at the victim’s family during a statement from the victim’s sister.
TEL AVIV – A radical Islamic preacher who called on his followers at the Temple Mount’s al-Aqsa Mosque to “slaughter Jews” who are “monkeys and pigs” has been sentenced to eight months in jail for incitement to violence by the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court Sunday morning.
TEL AVIV – An Israeli man has petitioned a court for a restraining order against God, citing three years of mistreatment at the hands of the Almighty.
Conservative voters and donor-class Republicans in Republican-ruled Georgia are battling over President Barack Obama’s choice for a federal judgeship in Georgia.
A felony criminal district court judge in Travis County, Texas, was shot outside her home last night. Judge Julie Kocurek is also a former prosecutor. It is unknown whether the shooting is related to her duties as a criminal judge or prosecutor.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge, whose identity was not released, found a hand grenade and brought it to the parking lot of a Torrance courthouse on Tuesday, sparking members of the sheriff’s bomb squad to arrive out of fear that the grenade might still be active.
Illegal alien children who cross the United States border with their mothers can no longer be held in detention centers supervised by the federal government and run by private operators, according to a decision by U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee on Friday.
The Bay Area News Group (BANG) and the Los Angeles News Group (LANG) won their battle with the state legislature this week, as a Sacramento County judge ruled that former Democratic state Sens. Leland Yee and Ronald S. Calderon must make their meeting schedules, office calendars and assorted official records available to the public.
On Friday, a Massachusetts judge denied a request from a non-profit group—which had been holding a continuous 24/7 vigil for almost 11 years at a church south of Boston—to suspend his order that they leave the property.
$100,000. That’s the prison’s estimated cost of the sex change operation California inmate Michelle-Lael Norsworthy demanded and was scheduled to receive in July before a Thursday court order delayed the first ever prison-paid procedure of its kind in California. But even if he’s released on parole, the taxpayers could still have the privilege of picking up the tab under Medi-Cal, says one bay area legal director.
A prisoner in Florida is urging a judge to ban Kim Kardashian and her husband Kanye West from the Sunshine State, along with the rest of the Kardashian family, minus Rob.
In one of the most shocking decisions in recent memory, a California judge reduced a child rapist’s sentence from a mandatory 25 years to 10, claiming that the longer sentence would constitute “cruel and unusual punishment.”
On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco ruled that California’s corrections department must pay for an inmate’s sex change surgery, establishing a new precedent as no operation for an inmate has ever been ordered in the state.
A San Francisco judge tossed out a jury’s $3.7 million verdict that found that 15 of the city’s firefighters had suffered age discrimination during a lieutenant’s promotional exam.
