By Amanda Bronstad | November 19, 2021
Although most courts across the country continue to require masks and other COVID-19 protocols, some judges are flexible about the rules, at times even asking the jurors what they are comfortable with.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Raymond M. Brown | November 17, 2021
The Judiciary used this gathering to treat peremptories as a trope for racial discrimination and ignore credible voices who have fought 'in the pits' the battle of obtaining fair trials for Black people.
By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | November 11, 2021
"I loved putting on that uniform. It humbled me every time I did it," said U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines of the Western District of Pennsylvania.
By Marianna Wharry | November 5, 2021
"During the middle of our client's testimony about being tortured by the police in his home country, the judge picked up his desk phone and called his wife to ask what was for dinner," one Twitter user recounted.
By Charles Toutant | November 4, 2021
According to PACER documents, Williams is a plaintiff in one active civil case, raising civil rights claims over his incarceration in the Mercer County Correctional Center. The pro se case is before Senior U.S. Judge Peter Sheridan. Williams also was a party in five other civil cases, four of which were dismissed by Sheridan and one by Chief Judge Freda Wolfson.
By David Gialanella | November 3, 2021
The man allegedly told a law clerk, "Before the snow starts falling on my head, I'm gonna put a bullet in the judge's brain ... he's a scumbag."
By Charles Toutant | November 3, 2021
Padin would become the second Latina on the District of New Jersey bench. If she and Castner are confirmed, women would make up the majority of the state's district court judges.
By Charles Toutant | October 26, 2021
"I think she was a very experienced, mainstream nominee so I'm not surprised," said University of Richmond Law School professor Carl Tobias of the relatively wide margin of victory. "She was impressive in the [Senate Judiciary] hearing. I think that may explain it."
By Amanda Bronstad | Scott Graham | Jasmine Floyd | October 21, 2021
Some lawyers who have handled trials this year say the COVID-19 pandemic has clouded how jurors perceive scientific and medical testimony, but others aren't convinced that juries have changed that much. More apparent, lawyers say, is that the political polarization surrounding the pandemic has seeped into the jury pool.
By Charles Toutant | October 19, 2021
"There were a lot of close votes when Trump was in and there is a payback going on," Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond who studies federal judicial selection, says of the vote that was split largely on party lines.
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