Even though a jury found Hankinson guilty last November of violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights by using excessive force, federal prosecutors are only asking for a one-day sentence for the former ...

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Kentucky police officer to nearly three years in prison for using excessive ...

An officer convicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain argued to the Colorado Court of Appeals that his trial judge ...

A Tennessee judge ruled on Tuesday that the state can deactivate a death-row inmate's implanted heart-regulating device at a ...

Darrin Gayles is a graduate of Howard University and the George Washington University School of Law, and the first out gay ...

Lawyers, law students and other fans of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson erupted in cheers and a standing ...

Retired 15th Circuit Judge Moses Baker, far left, administers the oath of office to his daughter, Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes, as she is ...

Judge Sara J. Harper passed away on July 8, 2025, days short of her 99 th birthday. Out of the limelight for the last decade, ...

Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, the first Black woman to become a judge in Northern California, will speak Saturday at the 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration at Modesto Junior College.

She also was the first black woman to serve on the bench in Fayette County, Kentucky, as chief regional circuit judge, a position she had from August 1999 to November 2003 after having been ...

During his first term, President Trump appointed only two Black women out of 234 judges to the federal bench, which is less than 1% of his appointments.

Biden marked a historic moment in his final days in office when the Senate confirmed his 40th Black female judge to the federal bench.