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The Florida House has approved a proposal to create term limits for judges on the Florida Supreme Court and state appellate courts. The intent of this proposed constitutional amendment is to neutralize the courts, which in doing their job have angered some Republican legislators. It's a lousy idea. Sun Sentinel editorial

A $100 million dollar settlement was reached between the tobacco companies R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Phillip Morris USA Inc., and Lorillard Tobacco Co. The...

A 2012 task force concluded that reforming state courts could save $56 million annually. The courts have asked for a $2.18 billion budget for the next fiscal

JEFFERSON — Randy Koschnick hung up his judicial robes for the last time in Jefferson County Monday.

In a previous post, we addressed what may happen when a defendant in federal litigation seeks to compel arbitration under Ch. 1 of the Federal...

Seyfarth Synopsis: Three decisions issued earlier this month reveal an increasing tension between the Ninth Circuit and California appellate courts on...

North Carolina's top judge wants an additional $30 million from state lawmakers in the upcoming state budget to address what he calls a decades-old problem: An underfunded and understaffed court system.

In a Tuesday order, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ann Jones appointed a 20-lawyer team in the California state court lawsuits against San Francisco's Juul Labs. They included Los Angeles-area attorneys Paul Kiesel and Mark Robinson as co-leads for individuals, and John Fiske and Rahul Ravipudi for pubic entities, such as school districts.

One of the biggest and least understood developments of the current session of the Supreme Court session is how the Supreme Court has undercut the power of state courts to decide cases. This develo…

Florida state courts are suspending most in-person operations until after the Fourth of July holiday and pushing for more remote hearings as the governor moves to reopen businesses.

Some state-level courts are still e-filing holdouts, and docket tracking providers say that hesitancy makes developing a nationwide state court docket platform unlikely.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he had asked Chief Judge Janet DiFiore to come up with a plan.

Bankruptcy judges are sending a strong message to homeowners

A Tennessee man who secretly made video recordings of girls ages 12 and 14 at his home didn’t violate the state’s child pornography law because the nude images didn’t amount

The New Jersey Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a bank robber because the prosecutor used a photo of actor Jack Nicholson’s “Here’s Johnny” moment in the 1980 movie The Shining during closing arguments.