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I’m really curious about this or other cases of overt corruption by federal judges. I, clearly wrongly, assumed that most of their “bad” behavior was over their

• nitrogen 6y ago
  Not directly related to patents, but on the subject of judicial corruption IIRC there have been cases of judges directly colluding with youth correctional facilities to send as many kids as possible, or with estate lawyers to get elderly declared incompetent so their assets could be taken.
  • fitblipper 6y ago
    That is horrifying. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html
  • cafard 6y ago
    That was near Scranton, Pennsylvania, about fifteen years ago. As far as I recall there was a county or municipal judge who was doing the sentencing.
• fitblipper 6y ago
  Asylum law is federally defined. However, if you look at the asylum requests per judge [1] you can see 2 different judges, 1. Hear 354 cases and approve 3.7% and 2. Hear 770 cases and approve 97.4% in my opinion clearly shows judges have a HUGE amount of discretion in how to apply the law and makes it easy to see how corruption could sneak into the system without being quickly identified and rooted out. There is a de facto qualified immunity for judges. [1] https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/judge2019/denialrates.html https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/judge2019/denialrat...