LAS VEGAS (KTNV) - Bully on the bench? That's what a district court judge is being called after a controversial video surfaces from Family Court.  Contact 13 investigates the disturbing way a mom says a judge ripped her family apart.   The heart-wrenching reality is a young girl just wants to stay with her mother. But in shocking video we get an inside look into Clark County Family … [Read more...]

Georgia voters approved an amendment to dismantle the state's independent judicial watchdog agency, letting state lawmakers recreate the agency and exert control over it. The Judicial Qualifications Commission was created in 1972 to investigate and resolve complaints of ethical misconduct by judges. In the past decade, the commission's actions have resulted in more than 60 judges leaving the … [Read more...]

A Family Court judge is cautioning against 'quick fix' legal solutions to the problem of family violence. Judge Joe Harman sits on the Federal Circuit for the Family Court and was the keynote speaker at a New South Wales Family Law Conference this week. Despite the perception that Australia is facing a domestic violence "epidemic", Judge Harman said he did not see it that way. "That … [Read more...]

Holding a samurai sword to his daughter’s chest, the father bellowed he would kill her. The baby’s mother, bound and bleeding, begged for their lives. The African-born man, known in court by the pseudonym of Saldo, suspected his Australian partner of cheating. So he tied her to a chair with duct tape, savagely bashed her, dragged her by the hair and forced her to swallow the SIM card in her … [Read more...]

SACRAMENTO — California's judicial disciplinary agency has filed suit to limit the scope of a pending state audit, arguing that the review violates separation of powers doctrine and threatens the confidentiality of investigations. The Commission on Judicial Performance is asking a San Francisco Superior Court judge to block state auditor Elaine Howle from reviewing complaints about judges and … [Read more...]