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Given 50 seconds to talk about 50 years of friendship, Bill Snively kept his words short and to the point. Judge Robert Coplan, who died Nov. 9 after a battle with cancer, "was a good judge and a good man," Snively said at his longtime friend's funeral. "That sort of encapsulates him."

I loved being in his courtroom   -Karissa Swanson

 

The state Commission on Judicial Conduct on Friday suspended indicted El Paso judges Regina Arditti and Sissy Hernandez. Both will continue to receive their salaries. State grand jurors charged them a day earlier with violating a misdemeanor Texas law that prohibits judges from engaging in nepotism.

We believe that we will be able to show they are mistaken   -Jim Darnell

 

For the first time in 38 years, Chief Justice Lyonpo Sonam Tobgye did not go to work on Monday. He spent his first day of retirement, November 16, "doing absolutely nothing". As he spoke to Kuensel yesterday evening, while taking a stroll outside his home in Changedaphu, below the Buddha statue, the 60-year-old Chief Justice said: "I'm at home relaxing. I didn't even check my email or read on the first day after retiring."  

Boy meets Girl. Girl visits Boy's apartment in Greenwich Village, near New York University , where they are students. Boy and Girl hang out on his fire escape one night, enjoying a smoke and solving the world's problems in the way that only two people whose combined age is under 40 can.  

In the equivalent of an appeals court decision, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey has been ruled "an illegal combination operating in restraint of trade." Frank B. Kellogg, United States special prosecutor, said the government won the case on every point argued. The company is ordered to cease all operations.  

The first courthouse in the state to be owned and operated by the Maine judiciary will open for business at 8 a.m. Monday. Hours at those courthouses, located on Hammond Street, were reduced this week while judges, clerks and other personnel moved files to the new location on Kenduskeag Stream.  

The Grand Traverse County prosecutor won a Michigan Court of Appeals ruling allowing him to investigate retailer Meijer Inc. for possibly criminally tampering in failed 2005 referendum and 2007 recall elections for a proposed Acme Township supercenter project. In a decision made Thursday and released late Friday, the appellate court ruled Prosecutor Alan Schneider can probe whether the Walker-based retailer acted illegally trying to unseat Acme Township officials and reverse their decisions in a fight ov  

One Louisiana judge is facing impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives. Another just pleaded guilty to taking $70,000 in bribes to let inmates get out of jail. And a third is being kicked off the bench for giving a cash award in a bogus case because an attorney gave her money.