The other side of courtroom humor has largely gone untold. It is a sordid and painful tale of joke catastrophes so bad they led to mistrials, courtroom defeats, malpractice charges, judicial ...

The justices are not using the oral arguments as auditions for a guest appearance on David Letterman. Their humor is generally dry and appropriate for the high-intensity atmosphere of the nation’s ...

Lawyers and judges might object to being the subjects of so many jokes, but Reader’s Digest overrules them. The American legal system is so complicated, you have to laugh. We don’t recommend using the ...