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 ...

A general power to issue orders to judicial employees does not trump a specific power for district courts to make their own rules about case assignments. In my initial post on this topic, I pointed ...

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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 ...

“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 ...

“Based on the past history of judicial districts competing for patent cases, it’s not hard to imagine that at least some districts will reject the ‘policy’ and ‘guidance’ of the Judicial Conference, ...

Concern over case assignment began after a mix-up was discovered in the capital murder case against Amber Waterman. Stocks sell off as traders wake up to the realization that Trump has 'highly ...