The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania is piloting a program aimed at veteran offenders facing incarceration for minor criminal charges.

The address is the same, www.pacourts.us, but the Pennsylvania judiciary has revamped its website.

Suspended Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Orie Melvin's trial began more than a week ago, with eight days of jurors hearing opening statements, testimony, and a denied motion for mistrial.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has released a restyled Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence. The newly styled Rules do not reflect substantive legal changes, but rather reflect a desire to make the Rules more readable and understandable while aiming for consistency with the recently restyled Federal Rules of Evidence.

Despite a law allowing the county to eliminate the jury commissioner positions, Mercer County has decided to maintain the two jobs.

The Allegheny Courthouse is getting a much needed facelift to celebrate the building’s 125th birthday.

Three judges indicted in the Philadelphia Traffic Court ticket fixing scandal have been suspended indefinitely without pay by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Federal prosecutors have charged two sitting and three former Philadelphia Traffic Court judges, as well a senior Traffic Court judge, three district judges, a Traffic Court administrator and two businessmen in connection with alleged ticket fixing and favoritism by the court's judges.

Pennsylvania’s mandatory judicial retirement provision is now being challenged in state court, federal court, and in the Pennsylvania house and senate, with bills introduced in the House and Senate and cases filed in both federal and state court.

Justice Orie Melvin's suspension from the Supreme Court bench led many court commentators to speculate that her absence would leave the court less productive and burdened with 3-3 voting splits in the cases to come, in part because political alignment.