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 ...

Celebrezze admitted to 15 violations of professional and judicial conduct rules. She suggested the Court issue a public reprimand. The Office of the Disciplinary Counsel, which brought the complaint ...

“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 ...

The policy requires random case assignment among all judges in a district whenever a litigant seeks a national injunction in a single-judge division. After the U.S. Judicial Conference announced its ...