America insists success is earned while quietly passing opportunity through families. Judge Judy, at least, makes the inheritance impossible to miss.

Judith B. Sheindlin, the star of “Judge Judy” and spinoff shows, will wrap up a television career filled with acerbic takedowns of litigants.

“The majority of the jurors, deliberating and alternatives, have maintained their anonymity, despite multiple requests to give statements,” Judge William Sullivan noted. The post Judge in Lindsay Clancy case impounds jurors’ names indefinitely,

A federal judge has ruled that the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS) "likely violated" a U.S. citizen's First Amendment rights when immigration officials delivered a warning notice after he sent a critical email to the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ), granting preliminary relief while the lawsuit moves forward.

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday elevated an Ohio appeals court judge with a track record of opposing abortion and LGBTQ causes to the federal bench, as Republicans push to fill as many judicial vacancies as the November midterm elections approach.

Judge Marlon Weiss questioned whether surrogacy is constitutional in a ruling submitted as part of his application for a better judgeship.

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it ordered that the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s work force be cut in half.

Joseph’s attorney, Elizabeth Mulvey, argued at the commission hearing last year that the case had been distorted over time and that everyone had come to believe that her client “let an illegal immigrant out of the door” with half the public believing she should be jailed and the other half calling her a “folk hero.”