"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 ...

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 ...

Federal judiciary leaders on Friday released the text of a revised policy directing district courts to assign judges at random in civil cases that have statewide or national implications, making clear ...

“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 ...

"The thing to keep in mind is that random case assignment is subject to so many exceptions across the federal courts,” said ...

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