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+Courts managing but burdened now—any small push tips the brink |
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+Gershman ‘15 |
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+Jacob. “Federal Judge Says His Overworked Colleagues Bench Close to Burnout.” Wall Street Journal. November 12, 2015. |
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+Judges in federal trial courts have for some time expressed concern about the ever- |
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+growing ones), but efforts to hire more judges have met political resistance. |
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+Limiting qualified immunity clogs the courts—empirics |
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+Noll ‘08 |
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+Noll, David L. "Qualified Immunity in Limbo: Rights, Procedure, and the Social Costs of Damages Litigation Against Public Officials." NYUL Rev. 83 (2008)//KOHS-AG |
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+In the context of ordinary civil litigation between two private parties, the total ( |
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+AND |
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+and has undoubtedly affected the development of the modern qualified immunity doctrine.53 |
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+Qualified immunity drastically limits caseloads—the aff sends us way over the brink |
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+Rhenquist ‘83 |
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+Justice Rehnquist hearing, "SMITH v. WADE," Court Data, 1983 http://www.allcourtdata.com/law/case/smith-v-wade/cz2B4ka?page=14//KOHG-AG |
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+*91 The staggering effect of § 1983 claims upon the workload of the federal |
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+AND |
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+ There is a limit to what the federal judicial system can bear. |
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+Court clog turns case |
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+Brunt ‘15 |
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+Alexa Van Brunt, "Poor people rely on public defenders who are too overworked to defend them" Guardian, June 17, 2015.//KOHS-AG |
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+Money can buy you a great defense team, but what if you can’t afford |
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+AND |
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+provide competent and diligent representation and their clients’ rights under the Sixth Amendment. |