The long-awaited Warren County court consolidation study is finished, but implementation could be a long time coming and will require buy-in from many local leaders, officials say. The study, drafted ...

A bipartisan commission tasked by the White House with exploring possible Supreme Court reforms voted unanimously Tuesday to submit the group's final report to President Biden. The 34-member group ...

Lancaster County President Judge Joseph Madenspacher on Thursday afternoon ordered the posting of a court efficiency study on the county's website. That came one day after he told the county ...

President Barack Obama had the worst record before the Supreme Court in modern history, losing half of the cases argued before the high court in his two terms, according to a new study. While liberals ...

The nation’s first Opioid Intervention Court (OIC) was established in Buffalo in 2017 after — in a single week — three traditional drug-treatment court defendants fatally overdosed on opioids before ...

Three Supreme Court decisions last year related to COVID-19, guns and abortions could result in nearly 3,000 deaths over the next decade, according to a new study. The research looked at decisions ...

Imagine there are four defendants — a lean male, lean female, obese male and obese female. Is any one of them more likely to have committed check fraud? All else being equal, you’d expect the answer ...

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LANSING – A Michigan State Supreme Court study recommends Ingham County Probate Court eliminate one of two judges through attrition, a decision one the judges called a “huge mistake.” The study, which ...

TOPEKA — Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss said Thursday he's pleased with suggestions gathered at the halfway point of a task force study of the state's court system, hoping to improve ...

Texas is chasing its tail when it comes to collecting court fees and fines, a new study says. And that inefficiency wastes courts' time and money – and keeps poor defendants in a cycle of poverty. The ...