Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor did not recuse herself from cases involving Penguin Random House, even though the book publishing company paid her over $3 million for her memoir. According 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 ...
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 ...