Distributed at the height of a national anthrax scare, a supply of 1,200 N95 respirator masks have been unearthed from courthouse supply closets across the state of Florida and sent to the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreThe Washington Supreme Court vacated a writ of mandamus that compelled a court clerk to comply with a rule the judges of Benton and Franklin Counties Superior Court issued ordering clerks to maintain paper files of court documents. The clerk prefers to maintain the records electronically and prints out a copy of an electric file when a judge requests a paper version.
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As courts across the country respond to the spread of the coronavirus by postponing jury trials and limiting who enters buildings, a federal courthouse in northern Georgia closed Tuesday after a security officer was hospitalized with symptoms consistent with COVID-19.
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Los Angeles County Superior Court, the largest trial court in the nation, will be closed for three days starting Tuesday due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
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A judge has been shot and critically wounded outside a courthouse in Mississippi, police said.
Read moreColorado federal courts have barred from entrance anyone who has traveled to any of these countries in the past 14 days: China, Iran, Japan, South Korea, Europe (except for Great Britain) and anyone with COVID-19 symptoms or who has been exposed to people with the virus — and some other restrictions.
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Even as the Southern District of New York suspends a new jury trial starting next week, Chief U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon aims to keep the court services going as much as possible during the novel coronavirus outbreak.
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As the number of coronavirus cases grows, so does the impact on courtrooms across the country. And with the recent link of 50 cases to one New York lawyer, that impact is starting to become more visible.
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The Southern District of New York, one of the most influential federal courts in the United States, shut its doors Monday to people who have visited five of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus epidemic within the last 14 days.
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Germany’s highest court ruled Thursday that a Muslim law clerk can be prevented from wearing a headscarf during court proceedings.
Read moreA former Russian prison service official with cancer shot himself dead in a Moscow courtroom Wednesday after being handed a three-year prison sentence on corruption charges, officials said.
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Grappling with an inherited backlog that has ballooned to 1 million deportation cases, a years-long wait for hearings and White House pressure, the Executive Office for Immigration Review is buying real estate for new courts, creating an online filing system, streamlining training and hiring judges. And it still can’t keep up.
Read moreWilliams, Weisberg & Weisberg dba Diamond Court Reporters sued California in superior court, claiming its Assembly Bill 5, effective Jan. 1, unconstitutionally prevents it from retaining the services of court reporters as independent contractors.
Read moreA federal judge skewered the Trump administration Thursday in advancing a lawsuit over the 1,700% increase in civil arrests that New York courthouses have seen as the government flouts a centuries-old tradtition of common-law privilege.
Read moreWashington state sued the Department of Homeland Security in federal court for its “unlawful, unconstitutional, and deeply harmful policy of co-opting Washington state courts to carry out federal civil immigration arrests.”
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Citing “constant reports of assaults,” Presiding Judge James Rogers closed the main entrance to the King County Courthouse in Seattle Tuesday.
Read moreAt its business meeting Thursday, the Judicial Council of California gave its stamp of approval to a list of 80 courthouse construction and renovation projects it hopes the Legislature will fund in the coming years.
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday to reduce the number of operating divisions in the Eastern District of Arkansas from five to three in a rare realignment of judicial lines, which was spurred by the 2017 closure of the only two federal courthouses in the two axed divisions.
Read moreReporter Matt Stroud sued all the judges in Pittsburgh Municipal Court for barring any sort of recording of bail hearings, including by court reporters, in federal court.
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