On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Quazie <quazieno...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Or maybe, have a system under which people could "pre-recuse" themselves >> from specific cases, so they couldn't be assigned them. (Different >> people have different opinions on which cases are difficult; personally, >> I don't think 2477 is at all hard, and root could have judged it >> trivially were it not for the conflict of interest.) >> >> -- >> ais523 >> >> > > The above system did exist at one point. Don't remember the exact > time period though.
Judges used to be able to make themselves ineligible to judge specific cases or classes of cases by announcement (including the class of all cases; this was the original supine). I think it was dropped as a result of Zefram's major judicial reform of 2007. -root