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

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