There is a crisis in the federal judiciary — 75 of them to be exact. That is the number of federal courts, according to the Judicial Conference (the policymaking body for the federal courts), facing ...

PROVIDENCE – Family Court Chief Judge Michael B. Forte wants magistrates to perform the same duties as judges and preside over and decide contested divorce cases, some of the most emotionally draining ...

In an effort to move on from paper-based systems, the judiciary is launching a Judicial Information Management System (JIMS) to be deployed in the magistrates’ courts across the island. This new ...