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Richard Posner, a prodigious legal scholar who taught at University of Chicago Law School and outspoken former federal appeals court judge who pioneered the use of economic theory to resolve legal questions, has died. He was 87.
An immigration judge in Chicago is at the center of dozens of deportations around the country that involve children who have been abused and abandoned.
Bodycam videos shows the arrest of a superior court judge in Northwest Indiana for drunk driving last weekend.
A former Wisconsin judge convicted of obstructing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in December will not serve any time behind bars.
Five people have been arrested in connection with the Sunday shooting of a judge and his wife in Indiana, according to authorities.
A judge and his wife were shot and wounded in their home over the weekend in Lafayette, Indiana.
Incoming Chief Judge Charles S. Beach II to be sworn in on Monday morning
A federal judge again Friday ordered agents in Chicago for immigration operations to wear and turn on their body cameras, telling them "that was not a suggestion."
The Chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois says National Guard troops are not needed at the Dirksen Federal Building in downtown Chicago.
Both immigration judges say they were notified by email that they'd been fired, effective immediately, and were given no explanation for why.
CBS News Chicago Investigators has obtained a communication from a child protection judge responding to an ethics complaint for giving gifts to "abused and neglected" foster kids who appear before him.
The victim was a 16-year-old girl.
Instead of imposing the mandatory minimum sentence of four years, the judge reversed the conviction, saying the 148 days the man spent in jail already was "punishment enough." The victim was a 16-year-old girl.
Earlier this month, a judge ordered Martin to pay Wilkerson's estate a jaw-dropping $1.1 million for the theft. Now, we have learned she is owning up to it.
Cook County judge ruled that David Biro will not be resentenced.
