U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts visited the University of Oklahoma College of Law Tuesday."This is the first time in history that a sitting chief justice has come to Oklahoma," Dean Andrew Coats said.

Continuing to reverberate around Supreme Court circles is a comment made by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. during oral argument last month in a case involving the Court's so-called "original jurisdiction." Roberts bluntly characterized the special masters appointed by the Court in such cases as "more akin to a law clerk than a district judge." It came across to some in the field as a demeaning ...

Law students need to spend more time thinking about the topics they study, and worry less about writing or typing every word their professors say, the Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts said to answer a question that was asked following his delivery of the Henry Family Lecture Tuesday at the OU College of Law.

In brief comments at the opening of the Supreme Court's session Monday, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. expressed "profound sympathy" to retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor for the death Nov. 11 of her husband, John O'Connor III, at the age of 79 of complications resulting from Alzheimer's disease. Roberts said he was speaking on behalf of the Court and retired Justice David Souter, and that the ...

Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. will visit the OU College of Law today to speak with students in several classes and to deliver the Henry Family Centennial Lecture.

NORMAN — U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said federal judges should be paid more and wondered if the Supreme Court should represent more career diversity during his visit Tuesday to the University of Oklahoma College of Law.Roberts answered questions on those and other topics after speaking in a packed courtroom at OU’s Coats Hall for the college’s eighth annual Henry Series ...

"Don't resolve your dispute in the street, bring it to court."Judge Timothy C. Evans has spent the better part of his professional career championing that point of view, first as a litigator and assistant corporate counsel for the city of Chicago, then as deputy commissioner and alderman, later as a judge and finally as chief judge of the Cook County Circuit Court.

When Cook County's Chief Judge Timothy Evans is honored at the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday, it will be a landmark moment for the once-disgraced local Circuit Court. CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports.

Off the Supreme Court bench, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. can be disarmingly modest about the role of the chief justice. He is only one of nine justices, he'll say in public appearances, and he has no authority to tell his eight colleagues what to do -- even though he gets blamed when things go wrong. On Tuesday, that self-deprecating posture was on display on the bench during a brief exchange ...

TERRY Cline’s frustration was evident as he re-acted to a national report that placed Oklahoma next-to-last on a listing of healthiest states."This is a reflection of what we live every day,” said Cline, who returned to Oklahoma this summer to become the state’s health commissioner. "This should come as no surprise. The surprise is the complacency people have about this.”He’s right. Oklahoma has ...