Litigation

Want to Live Like Tort King Melvin Belli
Tort lawyer Melvin Bell's former San Francisco mansion is for sale.

IL boy killed when Dad uses his car to tow boy's skateboard
The father, Timothy W. Melvin, was sentenced to 60 days in jail on a child endangerment charge, the Belleville paper reports. The child was accidentally run over by his dad. Melvin says he was confused when he was making his...

Pennsylvania Called a Poster Child for Merit Selection
The controversy surrounding Pennsylvania Judge Joan Orie Melvin’s judicial campaign has highlighted how “messy” campaign fundraising can be, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer article...

South Carolina man sentenced to 191 years in prison for robberies www.privateofficer.com
      COLUMBIA, SC March 21 2012- A 21-year-old Florence man will spend the next 191 years in prison. That’s not a typo, either. Malcolm Robert Lee Melvin was found guilty on eight counts of armed robbery...

Pennsylvania Justice Orie Melvin Figures in Grand Jury Report
The name of Justice Joan Orie Melvin of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court figures prominently in a grand jury report that is part of an ongoing corruption probe, a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article said...

Tuesday Gavel Grab Briefs
In these other dispatches about fair and impartial courts: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin may be in trouble now that her sister, state Senator Jane Orie, has been found guilty of corruption charges...