U.S. District Judge Sam Conti, who spent nearly 45 years on the federal bench, and presiding over a wealth of historic trials, died Wednesday at

Opening the Courtroom Door
U.S. District Judge Sam Conti, who spent nearly 45 years on the federal bench, and presiding over a wealth of historic trials, died Wednesday at
The Chief Magistrate in Sacramento, Dale Drozd, has been nominated by President Obama to serve as a federal judge for the Eastern District of California.
President Obama has nominated former San Francisco federal prosecutor, Haywood Gilliam, to a federal judgeship on the Northern District bench. Gilliam, currently a white collar
The U.S. Senate confirmed a former Las Vegas NAACP officer and federal public defender, to serve as a district judge in Las Vegas Tuesday. Richard
The Senate Judiciary Committee lobbed softballs at six federal judicial nominees, all from Arizona, in a brief hearing Tuesday. It took longer for each judge