Judge Selya enlivened his writing with original vocabulary and colorful figures of speech. “Selyaisms” included asseverate, crapulous and sockdolager. By Trip Gabriel Bruce M. Selya ...

Bruce M. Selya, a celebrated judge and the first person of Jewish faith to ascend the federal bench in Rhode Island, has died ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Bruce Selya, a longtime Rhode Island judge who rose to serve on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of ...

Selya died in 2025. In this news story from November 1986, WPRI 12 reporter Jack White reports on the swearing-in ceremony for Bruce Selya to join the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, with U.S ...