Tag: JUDGE

The idyllic burg of Blogtown would get mighty lonely and boring without the asinine behavior of oblivious social networkers. Snarky nerds now depend on those daily stories of arrests, divorces, firings and expulsions, so -- thankfully -- a kind Michigan resident has stepped up to the plate of social networking stupidity. Hadley Jons, an enthusiastic juror serving in a resisting arrest trial, ...

Among the many controversial policies enacted under the George W. Bush administration, perhaps the most legally nebulous was the National Security Agency's wiretapping program, which authorized federal agents to monitor Americans' phone calls and e-mails in the name of national security. When it was revealed that federal officials had been monitoring the phone calls of the now defunct Islamic ...

Thumb-happy jurors have repeatedly jeopardized court cases with tweets, status updates, and Internet searches. But, at least one of those courtroom tech taboos has actually been approved as an appropriate measure for the judge who presides over legal proceedings. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin recently drew the ire of defense attorneys when he consulted Google during a trial. The New York ...

We've heard plenty of stories about people losing jobs due to inappropriate posts on Facebook, but this is the first time we've heard it suggested that a person was disciplined for Facebook addiction. Sources have suggested to the Staten Island Advance that Criminal Court Judge Matthew A. Sciarrino, Jr. was transferred from his post in the Forgotten Borough to a Brooklyn court, due, at least ...