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The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Richard E.N. Federico to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit based in Denver, adding a second public defender to the circuit court (article available…

The occasional mistrial in a fact-heavy criminal case is a job hazard prosecutors and defense attorneys have come to expect, but a lone juror's sudden sabotage of a guilty verdict last week was a first to many in the New Jersey federal courthouse (article available…

Loren AliKhan was confirmed as the first South Asian woman to serve on the federal trial court in the District of Columbia.

An associate judge on the DC Court of Appeals, AliKhan was confirmed on Tuesday.

AliKhan is the latest in a string of historic judicial “…

The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed U.S. Magistrate Irma Carrillo Ramirez as the first Latina judge to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, giving President Joe Biden his second appointee to the court (article available…

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the high court, died Friday at age 93 (article available…

Without hesitation, inmates at Wake County Detention Center ran to the aid of a detention officer last week when she fell to the floor (article available here(link is external)).

According to the Wake County Sheriff’s Office, the female officer was supervising a dorm when she began feeling…

A Colorado attorney has been temporarily suspended after he used "sham" case law citations produced by the artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT in a motion and lied to a judge that an intern produced the errors, according to a state disciplinary ruling (…

Attorneys before the Fifth Circuit may soon have to inform the federal appeals court that their documents were not written using generative artificial intelligence programs and, if they were, that they were reviewed by humans for accuracy (article available here(link is external)).

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Federal defenders from across the nation have argued at least one case every term except for one since at least 2000, according to Adler. Most often, it’s their first and only time in front of the justices (…

In 1963, the Supreme Court decided in Gideon v. Wainwright that, for criminal cases to be fair, defense lawyers are “necessities, not luxuries.” States must ensure that people who cannot afford defense lawyers are provided with them at government expense.

In collaboration with the U.S.…