This,he said, will lead to an increase in claims that judges are biased, "however groundless those charges may be."

VOA: special.2009.06.12

The American Bar Association's Committee on Judicial Independence is working on guidelines for when judges should recuse themselves.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

At first,most of the nine Supreme Court judges had planned to give a decision without answering this question.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

The researchers said the judges could identify some personality traits even when people were pictured in controlled positions.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

But it was hard for the judges to decide about most other traits under the controlled conditions.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

Elected judges in the United States got a warning this week about money, politics and the law.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

Paul Perachi left the court last year at seventy, the age when judges in Massachusetts must retire.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Judges for this contest studied how each design looks and how it uses new technologies and materials.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

The judges on the International Court of Justice, sometimes called the World Court, voted ten to four.

VOA: special.2010.07.24

For example: giving bankruptcy court judges new powers to reduce mortgages without lender approval -- so-called cramdowns.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

The researchers compared the judges' opinions with the way the people who were photographed rated themselves.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

The judges chose a winning video from each of the six major areas of the world.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

Poetry slams are competitions where poets perform their poems in front of an audience and judges.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

Three judges on a federal appeals court had earlier sided with the city of New Haven.

VOA: special.2009.07.03