Touting his 30 years of experience as a jurist, Seminole Circuit Judge Robert B. McGregor says he will run for re-election this year. McGregor, 60, has served as a Seminole circuit judge for 17 years.

Circuit Judge Robert McGregor can be exasperating in the slowness with which he runs his docket at times. Some lawyers complain. Hearings start late and run overtime. He can dawdle and get mired in ...

The 1989 grounding of the EXXON VALDEZ spurred Congress to enact the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) to remedy what it believed to be a patch-work compensation scheme where liability and damages were ...

The Judicial Council of Virginia announced Tuesday it will recommend against adding a fourth judgeship in the 9th Judicial Circuit this year but will reconsider the request next fall. The 15-member ...

A former Will County assistant state`s attorney who successfully prosecuted Interstate Highway 57 killer Henry Brisbon was named Thursday to a vacancy on the Will County Circuit Court bench. Rodney B.

A Circuit Court judge for 22 years, Judge Booher earned a reputation for being deliberate but smart, thorough and fair. His case backlog was the largest in the Broward court system. His widow and ...

J. Thomas Nissel, the administrative judge of the Howard County Circuit Court and a veteran of 20 years on the bench, said yesterday he will retire Dec. 31. “I have been on the bench for two decades ...

The governor will choose one of four finalists recommended by the county’s Judicial Nominating Commission to fill the seat being vacated by county Circuit Court Judge J. Thomas Nissel. The 13-member ...

Legislation to add a fourth judge to the 7th Judicial Circuit in Newport News will be introduced in the next General Assembly session. But a proposal to add a fourth judge to the 9th Circuit, which ...

The corrupt coaching of a key witness by a police detective, and the failure of prosecutors to turn over information that the witness knew nothing about the crime, has led a federal appeals court to ...