There are 94 district courts, 13 circuit courts and one Supreme Court. To hear a case, a court must have personal jurisdiction (authority over the parties involved), subject matter jurisdiction ...

Trump has set a record with executive orders but also faces unprecedented court rulings blocking policies in scores of ...

A federal judge didn’t have the authority to order the Trump administration to broker the return of a Maryland man who was ...

The DOJ attorney had said in court that the administration should not have deported a protected legal resident living in ...

Wright Barksdale III, district attorney for Georgia’s Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit, said he expected ... The U.S. Supreme Court followed in 2002, declaring such executions unconstitutional.

Mary Favors is still plagued by nightmares from the days her husband beat her, choked her and verbally and sexually abused ...

A defense lawyer for the man accused of killing Tara Baker in 2001 says the amount of evidence to study may preclude an ...

The GBI accuses Dustin Matejcik, 30, of not turning over property — including money and a passport — that was recovered from ...

The Mountain Judicial Circuit is back to three Superior Court judges with the swearing-in of Judge Carlton H. “Hobie” Jones, III and Judge B. Nichole Carswell by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp at his ...

The Ogeechee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office has launched a Major Crimes Division to handle serious criminal ...