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 ...

For years, criminal defense lawyers in private practice in San Diego were able to attend professional training sessions sponsored by their colleagues at the county Public Defender’s Office, ...

“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 ...

Exactly how a defendant's case gets randomly assigned to one of the 13 judges at Criminal District Court doesn't seem like a topic to stir up much controversy. Times-Picayune archiveOrleans Parish ...

A federal trial court in Texas commonly targeted by litigants as a way to guarantee a conservative judge will hear their case is rebuffing the push by US judiciary’s policy-making body to rein in the ...

A "pay to play" scheme in Houston, Texas, is enriching private attorneys who donate to trial court judges responsible for doling out case assignments in Harris County's indigent defense system, often ...