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Former Phila. Traffic Court judge caught up in lewd photo scandal officially...
The former Philadelphia traffic court judge who showed a cellphone image of his genitals to a female court staffer will no longer serve as a jurist in Pennsylvania. The state’s Court of Judicial...
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Pa. Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin found guilty of public corruption
Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin It’s official: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin is a convicted felon. The sitting justice was found guilty Thursday on all but one of the...
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Pa. state legislator says convicted Justice Orie Melvin must go
Pa. State Rep. Brandon NeumanIn the wake of the judicial scandal at the state’s highest court involving now-convicted felon Joan Orie Melvin, at least one lawmaker is calling for the sitting justice...
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Pa. Judicial Conduct Board files formal charges against Lancaster magisterial...
Magisterial District Judge Kelly S. BallentineThe Lancaster County area magisterial district judge who was suspended with pay exactly one year ago after being charged by the state Attorney General’s...
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Pa. House subcommittee hears testimony on bill to up judicial retirement age
Pa. State Rep. Kate Harper, R-MontgomeryA state House subcommittee recently held a hearing on a bill sponsored by a suburban Philadelphia legislator that would allow judges to continue to serve past...
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Lawmaker behind bill raising judicial retirement age pleased with measure’s...
Pa. State Rep. Kate Harper, R-MontgomeryThe suburban Philadelphia lawmaker behind the push to increase the retirement age for state judges appears pleased with the bill’s recent advancement in a...
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Pa. judge who dismissed her own traffic tickets ordered suspended without pay
Magisterial District Judge Kelly S. BallentinePennsylvania’s Court of Judicial Discipline has granted a petition by the state’s Judicial Conduct Board to suspend without pay a magisterial district...
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CJD’s suspension of Phila. Traffic Court judge could spark legal showdown...
Court of Judicial Discipline President Judge Bernard L. McGinley The Pennsylvania Supreme Court may well be the highest court in the land, but in the eyes of the state’s Court of Judicial Discipline,...
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Pa. magisterial district judge who dismissed own traffic tickets can return...
The Pennsylvania magisterial district judge who made headlines after being charged with Magisterial District Judge Kelly S. Ballentine dismissing her own motor vehicle citations will be allowed to...
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Phila. Common Pleas Court judge ordered suspended without pay
A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge who has been facing disciplinary action for Judge Robert J. Colville failing to divulge certain information during his vetting for judgeship is no longer...
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Court of Judicial Discipline yet to resolve suspended Supreme Court Justice...
A hearing in Harrisburg on Tuesday before a panel of Pennsylvania’s Court of Judicial Justice Joan Orie Melvin Discipline having to do with the issue of suspended state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie...
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CJD grants motion for continuance in case of suspended, indicted Pa. Justice...
Pennsylvania’s Court of Judicial Discipline has granted a motion for a continuance in the Justice Joan Orie Melvin case of indicted sitting Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin. In a one-page order...
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Pa. district judge suspended without pay for one month
A magisterial district judge from Chester County has been suspended from her post Downingtown District Judge Rita Arnold without pay for a period of one month. The one-page per curiam order, issued...
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Two of nine criminal charges dismissed against Pa. Supreme Court Justice Orie...
A magisterial district judge has dismissed two of the nine criminal counts against Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin suspended Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin following a July...
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Indicted Phila. Traffic Court Judge Mulgrew temporarily removed from bench
The chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ordered the temporary Philadelphia Traffic Court Judge Robert Mulgrew suspension of a Philadelphia Traffic Court judge who was indicted by...
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Pa. Supreme Court suspends indicted Phila. Traffic Court judge without pay
A Philadelphia Traffic Court judge who was recently indicted on federal fraud charges will Philadelphia Traffic Court Judge Robert Mulgrew no longer be receiving a paycheck after the state Supreme...
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Court reprimands former Traffic Court judge who showed pictures of ‘willy’
The former Philadelphia jurist who allegedly showed two photographs of his, well, Willie F. Singletary “willy,” to a court staffer was chastised this week by Pennsylvania’s Court of Judicial...
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Pa. JCB files complaint against Phila. Common Pleas Court Judge Nocella
Pennsylvania’s Judicial Conduct Board has filed a formal complaint against a Philadelphia Robert A. Graci, Judicial Conduct Board chief counsel trial court judge over allegations that the jurist...
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Pa. CJD rejects objections by former Phila. Traffic Court Judge Singletary
Pennsylvania’s Court of Judicial Discipline late last week rejected objections by Willie F. Willie F. Singletary Singletary in the case against the former Philadelphia Traffic Court judge accused of...
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Phila. Judge Nocella suspended by Pa. Supreme Court
The Philadelphia judge who has been accused by the Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board of violating the state constitution and the Pennsylvania Code of Judicial Conduct for allegedly not divulging...
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Supreme Court schedules oral argument in case of indicted jurist; eyes...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to reinstate the pay of suspended Pa. Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille Magisterial District Judge Mark Bruno, a jurist who was caught up in the...
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Pa. Supreme Court affirms CJD’s removal of Singletary as Phila. Traffic Court...
The matter seems somewhat moot, given that the former minor court jurist has already Willie F. Singletary resigned his seat and also due to the fact that the bench is no longer in existence, but the...
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Veteran Pittsburgh-area lawyer appointed to four-year term on Pa. Judicial...
Gov. Tom Corbett recently appointed a Pittsburgh-area attorney to serve out a four-year Robert G. Del Greco, Jr. term on the state Judicial Conduct Board as a lawyer elector member. The JCB’s chief...
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Phila. judge removed from the bench, barred from holding future office
Suspended Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas M. Nocella has been Judge Robert J. Colville ordered permanently removed from the First Judicial District bench by the state’s Court of Judicial...
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Pa. CJD suspends indicted administrative Phila. Traffic Court judge without pay
One of the jurists caught up in the ticket-fixing scandal at the now defunct Philadelphia Court of Judicial Discipline Judge Bernard L. McGinley Traffic Court has been suspended without pay....
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Pa. Superior Court Judge Jack Panella appointed to four-year term on Court of...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has named an intermediate appellate Pennsylvania Superior Court Judge Jack A. Panella court judge to a four-year term on the state’s Court of Judicial Discipline. The...
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Gov. Corbett appoints two new members of Judicial Conduct Board
Thomas M. Tigue Kenneth E. Lawrence Jr. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett announced last week that he has appointed an official from Philadelphia’s Temple University as one of the newest members of the...
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Pa. disciplinary court orders indicted Phila. Traffic Court Judge Michael...
Pennsylvania’s Court of Judicial Discipline has denied a petition by the Court of Judicial Discipline President Judge Bernard L. McGinley Judicial Conduct Board to suspend indicted Philadelphia Traffic...
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In reversal from earlier ruling, CJD sanctions Erie judge over gun-waving...
A local judge from northwestern Pennsylvania has been reprimanded by a Erie Magisterial District Judge Thomas Carney state disciplinary court for waving a handgun at another motorist during a traffic...
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