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Judge regularly fines those in courtroom who have cellphones ring. His cell phone went off during proceedings. He went and paid the fine, as he makes others do.

A Montana judge walked out of a court hearing after being heckled by a rowdy crowd, leaving the conservative former state legislator who instigated it all to declare he was in charge of the courtroom and proclaim the case against him dismissed.

Judge hears cell phone and asks whose phone it was. When nobody confesses he sends all 46 people in the courtroom to jail. This is an old story I stumbled across but it was so outrageous, I just had to submit it.

A Los Angeles judge has ordered that 60 pounds of pot confiscated by the California Highway Patrol during an arrest be returned to the defendant.

So rather than continuing to fight for greater restrictions on Second Amendment rights, it is time for liberals to defend Second Amendment rights as vigorously as they fight to protect all of our other rights. Because it is by fighting to protect each right that we protect *all* rights.

Chief U.S. District Judge Curtis L. Collier in East Tennessee blocked East Ridge from enforcing a ban on fortunetellers Oct. 8, hours after Candice Wohlfeil, a disabled grandmother who describes herself as a “spiritualist,” filed a lawsuit that says the ordinance violates her free-speech rights.

Pete Eyre's arrest for wearing a cap in a courtroom is on reddit. The link to the comments is above! Help participate in the discussion!

Not surprising, but lots of people are of the mindset of "YEAH, STICK IT TO HIM!"

According to The National Law Journal, D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff signed a temporary restraining order barring it from publishing the material the reporter had found out, specifically saying that The National Law Journal could not name the government agency that was involved in a regulatory inquiry into one of the participants in the lawsuit. When the NLJ reporter pointed to the First Amendment, the judge allegedly replied that she did not care:

We’ve all heard jury nullification… how about defendant nullification. In Livingston, Montana this week a judge just walked out of a courtroom while the court was in session while being heckled by an unruly crowd at the behest of the defendant, Joel Boniek. Once the judge was gone Boniek proclaimed himself in charge of the courtroom and dismissed his own case.