WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared united Tuesday as they picked apart prison rules in Arkansas that allow full Afros and mustaches, but no beards, in a case about a Muslim inmate’s claim that his religious beliefs require that ...

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WASHINGTON — In roughly 75 hours of arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court since October, only one African-American lawyer appeared before the justices, and for just over 11 minutes. The numbers were marginally better for Hispanic lawyers. Four of them ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative justices sounded skeptical Tuesday about allowing multinational corporations to be sued in American courts over claims that they were complicit in human rights abuses in foreign countries. The court heard arguments over whether ...

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The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct released public censures Wednesday in unrelated cases against a village court justice in Dutchess County and a town court justice in Jefferson County.  The commission determined that Robert P. Apple, a Pawling ...

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Chief Justice John G. Roberts used his annual year-end report to rebuff assertions by critics that some justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have flouted their ethical obligations by deciding not to recuse themselves from certain cases. “I have complete ...

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The issue of whether the First Amendment allows protests on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court will soon land before the justices. Members of a group arrested in 2008 after protesting the Guantanamo Bay detention camp on the steps of the Supreme Court will ask that very court to rule that the arrests violated their free speech rights.

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The only contested races for state Supreme Court justice in the Fourth Department are in the Fifth Judicial District, where nine candidates are running for four seats. Some are switching minor party designations and four are apparently about to be served with a lawsuit questioning ...

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She may not pull in a lot of laughs during oral arguments, but Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is laughing all the way to the bank as the court’s wealthiest U.S. Supreme Court justice by a long shot, according to a new analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics.

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Even though he’s known as the guru of legal writing, it wasn’t easy for Bryan Garner to gain the confidence of the U.S. Supreme Court justices he interviewed about writing and advocacy. He was initially rebuffed by Justice Clarence Thomas ...

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Whether they know it or not, most everyone knows Bryan Garner’s work. He is after all the editor of Blacks Law Dictionary (since 1995) and the author of numerous books and articles on legal writing. “He’s prolific. He’s the guru of legal writing,” according to David Voisinet ...

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As the October 2010 term draws nearer to its close, U.S. Supreme Court opinions are getting wordier. At the same time, the justices appear to be parsing those words much more by making frequent uses of dictionaries in their analyses.

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The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has determined that one town justice in Chenango County should be censured and another should leave office in connection with a traffic-ticket-fixing incident.

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