Topic: Judiciary
The House has voted to impeach a federal judge from Louisiana. A House Judiciary Committee task force charged District Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. with a long-standing pattern of corruption. The first of four impeachment articles was approved Thursday, 412-0. The second passed 410-0. The ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chevron Corp may pursue an international arbitration claim over environmental pollution allegations in Ecuador that could expose the second-largest U.S. oil company to $27 billion in liability, a U.S. judge ruled on Thursday. The government of Ecuador had asked Manhattan federal court Judge Leonard Sand to prevent Chevron from taking the 17-year-old case to arbitration ...
The New Jersey Supreme Court's disciplinary committee has publicly reprimanded a lower-court judge who belittled an immigrant defendant's poor English skills and compared another defendant to O.J Simpson. Ocean County Superior Court Judge James N. Citta (SIT'-uh) made the remarks during ...
