On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I personally am of the opinion that the first appeal of any case >> should rarely if ever be judged AFFIRM or OVERRULE, so I would have >> supported this even if ais523 didn't invoke the PR. > > A very old tradition is that we used to give a strong weight to AFFIRM > in the name of "this is a game, and judges work hard, and we should fucking > listen to them." I'm very, very, sorry that's dead.
Maybe judges worked harder then than now... criminal cases are different because the defendant can (and often does) appeal them by announcement (see http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/list.php?appeal=1, looks at first glance like a disproportionate number of appeals are for criminal cases), but inquiry appeals are often called for cases whose judges published poor arguments, i.e. didn't work hard enough...
