On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 14:05, Ed Murphy <emurph...@socal.rr.com> wrote: > BobTHJ wrote: > >> Now that we have favoring, disfavoring, II, Hem&Hawing, and posture to >> section judicial eligibility perhaps its time to assign judges >> randomly from among those eligible. This would help prevent judicial >> scams and also limit the "CFJ to justicar, assign to self, judge as >> desired" pattern that is visible in CFJ 2670. > > Please limit this to cases submitted to the Justiciar. > I wasn't doing more than proto-ing this at the moment. However, out of curiosity, why? In the past there was made an argument that permitting the CotC to choose among the eligible judges allows assigning more experienced judges to more difficult cases, etc. However, Judicial Rank and favoring go a long way toward making sure appropriate judges are assigned to each case. What's your argument for permitting the CotC to maintain this selection?
On another note, if we were to adopt random judge selection from among eligible candidates, favoring a case could be changed to 'double' the chances of a paticular judge being selected. This would effectively un-break the automatic selection when a single judge favors a case. BobTHJ
