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Rackspace GC is Tired of ‘Giving Money to a Protection Racket’
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EPA Counsel Jonathan Bull Rejoins Gardere
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Federal Civil Jury Trials Decline to New Lows
Federal Appeals Judge Pat Higginbotham warned lawyers and federal judges in 1997 that civil jury trials were headed to extinction. Most lawyers and judges scoffed. After all, no state in the country trusted citizen juries to resolve personal and business disputes more than Texas. During the 16 years since Judge Higginbotham’s warning, civil jury trials have plummeted to historic 40 year lows.
“The reduction in jury trials isn’t about the empty courthouse,” Judge Higginbotham says. “it is about the alienation of the people from the process. The jury system is about governance.”