Practically all citizens agree that the federal judiciary is critically important to our democracy. For citizens to have confidence in and respect for the judiciary, it must be above suspicion. To ...

“The random case-assignment policy deters judge-shopping and the assignment of cases based on the perceived merits or abilities of a particular judge. It promotes the impartiality of proceedings and ...

"The thing to keep in mind is that random case assignment is subject to so many exceptions across the federal courts,” said ...

Federal judiciary leaders on Friday released the text of a revised policy directing district courts to assign judges at random in civil cases that have statewide or national implications, making clear ...

I study the relative academic performance of students tracked or randomly assigned to South African university dormitories. Tracking reduces low-scoring students’ GPAs and has little effect on ...