A New York judge has ruled that an attorney should face a sanctions hearing for allegedly dragging out a divorce trial to prevent the judge from finishing the case before she leaves the bench upon reaching the mandatory state retirement age.

The Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline has removed a magisterial district judge from the bench after finding she violated conduct standards and the state constitution by telling staff she would not be coming to court 116 days over a two-year period and, when she did come to court, habitually arriving late.

A New Jersey municipal prosecutor who lost her job for reporting that a judge was drunk on the bench has been awarded $1.26 million in fees in her whistleblower suit, bringing her total recovery to $2.68 million. Now a partner with a small firm, Michele D’Onofrio says, “The system works.”

T. John Ward Sr., the federal district court judge credited with turning Marshall, Texas, into an unlikely hot spot for patent litigation, stepped down from the bench on Friday

A New York judge who has been on the bench since 2005 has announced he is resigning for financial reasons. The judge wrote the governor, “I am forced to leave the bench to properly provide for my wife and our three children …. It breaks my heart they will not know their Dad as a judge.”