The wooden gavel - which once summoned the most unruly lawyers to order - has gone the way of the powdered wig. Judges rarely, if ever, wield a gavel in the city's state and federal courtrooms ...

A popular skit called "Here Comes The Judge," first made famous by comedian Flip Wilson and then Rat Packer Sammy Davis, Jr., featured a judge wearing an old-time powdered wig who jokingly quipped ...

A judge has dismissed a $30 million (18.2 million pounds) federal lawsuit by a celebrity hair stylist who accused rapper and former "American Idol" judge Nicki Minaj of stealing his designs for ...