There are plenty of families with multiple generations of judges; you can read about two of them on the other pages of this report. But you won’t find many with multiple generations serving at the same ...

John Burdette Pratt remembers being wary. It was spring 1990 and he had just been appointed to fill a newly created judgeship in his hometown of Vale, Oregon. It’s a small town in the extreme eastern pa...

In January 2000, Judge Steven Leifman was trying to hear the case of a man accused of a minor offense. It was not going well. The defendant, long ago a student at Harvard, was covering his ears. He shook ...