“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 ...

"If you look at the cases that are new that don't relate back to prior cases, then interest in the district has fallen considerably," Brian Love said. A Santa Clara University report analyzed the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine, and remdesivir are among the drugs commonly discussed as treatments for the new viral infection, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Previously, I described different ...

Most environments where assignment mechanisms (possibly random) areused are such that participants have outside options. For instance private schools and private housing are options that participants ...

We derive analytical relationships between shock responses and theory-implied causal effects (comparative statics) in dynamic settings with linear profits and linearquadratic stock accumulation costs.

A Santa Clara University report analyzed the effect of a 2022 random assignment order on Waco Division patent filings. The report reinforces other findings that patent case have dropped dramatically ...