> 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.
More trials should mean more money for lawyers in the area, judges, ancillary people like stenographers and clerks.
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.
If they changed something so caseload fell by 75%, do you think some judges might lose their job?
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.)