On March 12, 2024, the Judicial Conference of the United States (“Judicial Conference”) announced that, in an effort to limit the ability of litigants to select judges in certain cases based on where ...

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“The random case-assignment policy deters judge-shopping and the assignment of cases based on the perceived merits or abilities of a particular judge. It promotes the impartiality of proceedings and ...

Hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine, and remdesivir are among the drugs commonly discussed as treatments for the new viral infection, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Previously, I described different ...

Practically all citizens agree that the federal judiciary is critically important to our democracy. For citizens to have confidence in and respect for the judiciary, it must be above suspicion. To ...

I was delighted to see the Judicial Conference of the United States is acting to promote random case assignment in certain declaratory judgment and injunction cases. You can read the press release ...

"If you look at the cases that are new that don't relate back to prior cases, then interest in the district has fallen considerably," Brian Love said. A Santa Clara University report analyzed the ...

Random case assignment is a hallmark of the federal justice system. Judges can't shop for cases they like and shunt aside the ones they don't. Otherwise, Medicare cases would never be heard. But in ...

New allegations questioning the legitimacy of The Pirate Bay trial surfaced Friday when lawyers for the four file-sharing defendants accused the Swedish courts of secretly steering the case to a ...

Hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine, and remdesivir are among the drugs commonly discussed as treatments for the new viral infection, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Previously, I described different ...

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