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Judicial transparency in the operation of the federal district courts
I am a big fan of becoming utterly transparent when it comes to operating the federal trial courts. See, e.g., Richard G. Kopf, The Courts, the Internet, E-filing and Democracy, 56 University of New...
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Can judges be too public?
Charles Lane (an editorial writer who attended Yale Law school) has written a piece in the Washington Post that deserves reading. A reader, who is a lawyer, called my attention to the article, and I...
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On going public
Before every trial, and for the last 25 years plus, I have conducted a jury orientation for prospective jurors that is open to counsel and the public but which is not part of voir dire or the trial....
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Remembering my day with John Seigenthaler
What is the motivation for my blog and my Jihad for judicial transparency? I can’t blame it on John Seigenthaler, but I will say that he started me thinking about how opaque the federal judiciary has...
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Please help me! How should PACER be funded?
For those of you, like me, who are huge supporters of PACER, the sister system CM/ECF, and the issue of transparency more generally, please read Brian Browdie’s great article entitled Why Pacer should...
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The normative question of “celebrity” and the Justices
Thanks to the Wall Street Journal blog, I have now read Professor Richard L. Hasen’s innovative Social Science Research Network article entitled Essay: Celebrity Justice: Supreme Court Edition. You...
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