Judge Stays Out of San Diego Mayor Race
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A retired judge refused Monday to intervene in the city's mayoral election, where Mayor Dick Murphy has claimed victory over a maverick city councilwoman who mounted a surprising write-in bid.
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The same federal judge who threw out Georgia&#039;s voter ID law last year blocked the state Wednesday from enforcing its revised law during this year&#039;s elections.
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A U.S. federal judge halted planned elections in Port Chester, New York, on Friday, after the government said its political system effectively denies Hispanics representation in the local government.
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A state appeals court on Tuesday stopped the county registrar from certifying results of San Diego's mayoral election, hours before the deadline.
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A federal judge Sunday denied the state Republican Party's bid to force Washington's most populous county to stop counting some ballots in the recount of the governor's race.
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A Milwaukee alderman accused of shaking down business owners in his district must remain behind bars until his trial, a federal judge ruled.
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A tennis judge who made a controversial call in Tuesday&#39;s US Open quarterfinal between Americans Serena Williams and Jennifer Capriati will not officiate any more matches in the tournament.
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A federal judge rejected a request by prosecutors to send former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry to jail for violating his probation in a criminal tax case.
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A judge handling James Brown's contested fortune refused Friday to remove himself from the case despite an argument from the late soul singer's former trustees that he forced them to resign.
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A judge has quashed a four-week suspension slapped on London Mayor Ken Livingstone for comparing a Jewish journalist to a Nazi concentration camp guard, officials said.
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A U.S. federal judge on Friday refused to block the extradition of deposed Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega to France after his long prison sentence in Florida ends on Sunday.
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A judge refuses to issue an injunction against a reality TV show about boxing brought by a rival network.
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Several absentee voters want their ballots back after voting for a judge whose coarse Internet postings drew recent news coverage. Election officials say forget about it.
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A complete review of disqualified ballots in San Diego's mayoral race showed Wednesday that write-in candidate Donna Frye would have ousted Mayor Dick Murphy had those votes been counted.
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In what could be a major defeat for Ralph Nader, a judge has issued a temporary order that keeps the independent presidential candidate off the Florida ballot.
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A California judge on Wednesday  refused a bid by producers of NBC's upcoming TV boxing show  "The Contender" to block the Sept. 10 debut of Fox's rival  reality series, "The Next Great Champ," giving the first round  of judicial fisticuffs to the Rupert Murdoch-owned network.
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CNET is reporting that US District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco has denied a request by the Antitrust Division of the federal Department of Justice to issue an injunction against Oracle&#39;s hostile acquisition of business software maker PeopleSoft