Bail Hearings
Reporter 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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Judicial Council Takes Fresh Try at Courthouse Construction Priorities
The Judicial Council of California has rearranged its priorities for 80 planned courthouse construction and renovation projects, after public comments came pouring in from communities around the state.
Read moreCourthouse Immigration Raids Challenged in New York
Blasting courthouse immigration raids as antithetical to public safety, New York prosecutors announced a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security.
Read moreActive Shooter Drill Shuts Down North Carolina Courthouse
Fake gunshots rang out through a North Carolina courthouse Friday as part of an active shooter training simulation that prevented non-employee visitors from entering the building for several hours.
Read moreDispatches From the Road: Courthouse Drama and Floods in Rural Montana
In his latest dispatch, Courthouse News’ western bureau chief visits a small railroad town with a beautiful historic courthouse with a scandalous past.
Read moreCalifornians Get First Look at Revamped Priorities for Courthouse Construction
The Judicial Council of California approved new priorities for 80 courthouse construction and renovation projects across California on Thursday, a move sure to draw both congratulations and criticism depending on where courts fall on the list.
Read moreFired Magistrate Alleges Debauchery in Virginia Beach
A former Virginia Beach magistrate brought a federal complaint this weekend detailing what she describes as rampant substance abuse and sexual misconduct among court staff.
Read moreMueller Hurdles Conspiracy Bait, Stings Trump on Wiki-Love
Roundly ignoring conspiracy-theory bait by Republicans, former special counsel closed out his testimony before Congress on Wednesday with pointed criticism of President Donald Trump’s penchant for praising WikiLeaks.
Read moreKnife-Wielding Man Shot Outside Downtown LA Courthouse
A court security officer shot a man armed with a knife on Tuesday outside a federal courthouse in Los Angeles.
Read moreHouse Sends $15 Minimum Wage to Icy Senate Fate
Tackling the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade, the House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that will raise the wage to $15 an hour by 2025.
Read moreSuspect Dead After Shooting at Dallas Courthouse
Dallas police took a suspected shooter into custody at the downtown federal courthouse early Monday morning after exchanging gunfire, with no injuries of bystanders reported.
Read morePhilly Court Web Server Outage Enters 3rd Week
Web servers in the Philadelphia courts remained down indefinitely Tuesday, with the internet outage entering its third week due to what court officials called a “virus intrusion.”
Read moreHer Majesty’s Courts Close and Go Online, Leaving Many Far From Justice
Her Royal Majesty’s courts are disappearing — and going online. Sold-off Victorian courthouses have become swanky cocktail bars and high-end cafés. Less appealing concrete-clad courthouses are simply gone — razed to the ground and replaced by new developments. Others have been turned into apartments, and people sleep and eat where once judges, solicitors and court recorders worked.
Read moreMaryland Sued Over Ban on Rebroadcast of Court Recordings
Journalists and court-transparency activists filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Maryland law that prohibits the rebroadcast of audio recordings of criminal proceedings.
Read moreIn New Lawsuit, Prosecutors Call ICE Courthouse Arrests Illegal
Two Massachusetts prosecutors brought a federal complaint Monday to halt U.S. immigration officers from patrolling state courthouses to round up people for deportation.
Read moreState Judge Charged With Helping Man Evade Immigration Agent
A Massachusetts judge was indicted Thursday on charges that she helped a man who was living in the U.S. illegally sneak out a back door of the courthouse to evade a waiting immigration enforcement agent.
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A federal magistrate judge granted summary judgment to courtroom observers arrested for disorderly conduct, since taking pictures of trial participants as they left the courtroom did not constitute probable cause for arrest.
Read moreStop Courthouse Crackdowns, Judges Tell ICE
A group of former state and federal judges called on federal immigration authorities to stop making arrests at courthouses in a public letter sent Wednesday.
Read moreMan Asks 10th Circuit to Revive Suit Over Courtroom Beating by Police
A man beaten by a police officer in a Denver courtroom lobbied a 10th Circuit panel on Tuesday to revive his lawsuit against the city-county.
Read moreMr. Trump the Democrat
Dear Mr. Editor:
Me and the Cowboy Caucus has been reading in the newspapers a lot of nonsense about our president, Mr. Don john Trump, about how he done this and that, and with who, a lot of these whos being of the female persuasion, and how he dodged his taxes and stiffed poor honest working men and women for their wages and so on. These things being so horrible as they is, if even half of them be true, me and the Cowboy Caucus has decided they is only one conclusion to be drew from it: Mr. Trump must be a Democrat.