New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman has said that within the next three months he will establish adult criminal court parts dedicated to handling cases of 16- and 17-year-old offenders in an effort to demonstrate that the age of criminal responsibility can safely and economically be raised.

The 9th Circuit on Friday struck down an ordinance aimed at keeping day laborers from soliciting employment on the street, finding it facially unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds.

Texas federal Judge Sam Sparks, who has been getting plenty of attention for his orders chastising lawyers for their behavior, recently got some criticism of his own in an email from the 5th Circuit’s chief judge, who called Sparks’ rhetoric “caustic, demeaning, and gratuitous.”

Preparing to rule on what he called the first recusal battle to involve a judge’s sexual orientation, Northern District of California Chief Judge James Ware asked tough questions Monday of those seeking to undo rulings by Judge Vaughn Walker, who presided over the Proposition 8 trial.

A sharply divided 9th Circuit panel has ruled that the VA denies due process rights to wounded troops by providing inadequate mental health care, which has led to a high suicide rate. In dissent, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski blasted the decision as an “Article III putsch.”