GENEVA, Ill. A jury ordered a suburban Chicago newspaper on Tuesday to pay $7 million to the chief justice of the state Supreme Court for a series of articles that he alleged were untrue and d...

Gainesville.com AP: "Chief Justice John Roberts made the case Monday for caution rather than boldness on the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that it produces stronger decisions for lower courts and lawyers alike."

Minnesota Public Radio: "A bipartisan commission is looking at whether to abolish elections for Minnesota judges. Minnesota Chief Justice Russell Anderson created the Citizens Commission for the Preservation of Impartial Judiciary in the wake of recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings."

If not for a chance encounter between two judges at the University of Miami Law School in 1978, John G. Roberts, Jr. may not be where he is today - chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. William Rehnquist, then an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, and Henry Friendly, an appellate judge on the second circuit, met at a UM Law School event and soon became friends.

Israel's Supreme Court chief justice stepped down yesterday after years of precedent-setti ng decisions which championed human rights and put the court at odds with military and government policy on Palestinians.

State Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerry Alexander on Tuesday was fending off a fierce challenge from John Groen, a conservative property-rights ...

On Tues., Jan. 17, 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Oregon's doctor-assisted suicide law by a vote of 6-3 (Gonzales v. Oregon). Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, and Chief Justice Roberts registered his first dissent since coming on the...