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> work to mask the consistent refusal by the courts in the Eastern District to end meritless cases before trial. More trials should mean more money for lawyers
by MCRed 11y ago
> work to mask the consistent refusal by the courts in the Eastern District to end meritless cases before trial.
More trials should mean more money for lawyers in the area, judges, ancillary people like stenographers and clerks.
- wlesieutre 11y agoAnd hotels and restaurants and anything else that travelers use while in town for lawsuits. It's like a tourism business except instead of being a nice place that people want to go, you drag them there with $625M blackmail. The people on these juries know that if they stop being a haven for patent trolls, the cash cow goes away.
- st3v3r 11y agoI'm 75-90% sure federal judges are on salary, and are not paid by the case. At least I hope this is so.
- DannyBee 11y agoFederal judges are salaried and appointed for life except in cases of impeachment.
- brianwawok 11y agoBut the number of judges is based on caseload. If they changed something so caseload fell by 75%, do you think some judges might lose their job?
- schoen 11y agoNope, not in the Federal court system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judge#Tenure_and_salary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judge#Te... No Federal judge has ever been fired due to a reduction in the number of positions on the judge's court. (It's quite possible that a decreased caseload could result in fewer new judicial confirmations, but that affects would-be judges, not presently-serving judges.)