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+====Courts have heavy burdens now and are on the brink—one big push causes collapse of the judiciary and democracy.==== |
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+Bannon 13 (Alicia Bannon, serves as counsel for the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, where her work focuses on judicial selection and promoting fair and impartial courts. Ms. Bannon also previously served as a Liman Fellow and Counsel in the Brennan Center's Justice Program. J.D. from Yale Law School in 2007, where she was a Comments Editor of the Yale Law Journal, "Testimony: More Judges Needed in Federal Courts," September 10, 2013, http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/testimony-federal-courts-need-more-judges) //VM |
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+While the current high level of judicial vacancies partially explains this high per-judge |
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+2013, so as to ensure the continued vitality of our federal courts. |
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+====Qualified immunity screens out tons of litigation- absent this the courts get flooded with lawsuits- clogs courts==== |
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+King 16 King, Andrew. Contributor to Fault Lines blog and Mimesis Law. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Granville Township, Ohio, USA. "Keep Qualified Immunity…For Now." Mimesis Law. N.p., 01 July 2016. Web. 24 Oct. 2016. http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/keep-qualified-immunity-for-now/11010. VM |
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+In the case of qualified immunity, the idea is basically that certain factual circumstances |
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+. Let's figure out a better one before tearing down the old one. |
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+====Federal court clog causes collapses the federal judiciary – overburdens dockets, expansion can't keep pace==== |
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+Oakley 96 ~~John B. Oakley, Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus US Davis School of Law, 1996 The Myth of Cost-Free Jurisdictional Reallocation~~//VM |
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+Personal effects: The hidden costs of greater workloads. The hallmark of federal |
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+would raise the most serious questions of the future course of the nation. |
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+====That undermines effective and predictable IPR decisions – Undermines technological innovation==== |
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+Kirk 6 (Executive Director of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, 3-24-6, Michael, http://www.aipla.org/Advocacy20Shared20Documents/TES_2006-03-24_109C_ImmigrationBill-Specter-Kirk.pdf) //VM |
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+I am writing to you on behalf of the American Intellectual Property Law Association ( |
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+of the Federal Circuit to give timely and consistent consideration to patent cases. |
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+====Solves extinction—-US tech leadership's vital to heg and preventing warming on multiple fronts==== |
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+Louis Klarevas 9, Professor for Center for Global Affairs @ New York University, 12/15, "Securing American Primacy While Tackling Climate Change: Toward a National Strategy of Greengemony,"http:www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-klarevas/securing-american-primacy_b_393223.html //VM |
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+As national leaders from around the world are gathering in Copenhagen, Denmark, to |
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+best approach for achieving this is to promote a national strategy of greengemony. |
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+====Climate change disproportionately affects minorities worldwide —- voting aff disrupts this cycle in favor of a more just vision of the world that holds the US accountable for its flawed policies and rectifies flawed policies that caused this situation —- the impact is not only extinction, but also structural violence – turns case==== |
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+David Naguib Pellow 12, Ph.D. Professor, Don Martindale Endowed Chair – University of Minnesota, "Climate Disruption in the Global South and in African American Communities: Key Issues, Frameworks, and Possibilities for Climate Justice," February 2012, http://www.jointcenter.org/sites/default/files/upload/research/files/White_Paper_Climate_Disruption_final.pdf |
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+It is now known unequivocally that significant warming of the atmosphere is occurring, coinciding |
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+must reduce our emissions and consumption here at home in the global North. |