> But yet you don't really hear doctors saying "how can a judge hear a case about a medical issue!" This actually is something that comes up reasonably often.

> But yet you don't really hear doctors saying "how can a judge hear a case about a medical issue!" This actually is something that comes up reasonably often. In fact, when I was in law school, an entire week of Torts was spent on precisely this issue. It's not unique to technology, but the frequency in which it comes up, as well as the total number of people directly (by that, I mean their day to day life could materially change overnight) is much higher. You aren't wrong about technologists and politics, though. I hadn't really thought about amicus briefs as a solution, thanks for pointing it out.