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+Federal judges are burning out with skyrocketing casework- the brink is now |
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+Bendery 15 ~Jennifer Bendery, 9-30-2015, "Federal Judges Are Burned Out, Overworked And Wondering Where Congress Is," Huffington Post, span class="skimlinks-unlinked"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/judge-federal-courts-vacancies'us'55d77721e4b0a40aa3aaf14b/span~~ NB |
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+WASHINGTON — It was Labor Day weekend and Lawrence O’Neill desperately wanted to get out |
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+long-term when you don’t give people the help they absolutely need." |
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+Ending qualified immunity causes longer and more trials |
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+Thomson 9: Linda Thomson. January 22, 2009. US Supreme court: Police are protected from lawsuits. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705279304/US-Supreme-Court-Police-are-protected-from-lawsuits.html?pg=all. RW |
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+The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with police officers who raided a |
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+AND |
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+purpose for qualified immunity is to protect police officers from personal liability unless th |
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+QI prevents frivolous trials- that clogs courts |
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+Beerman 09 ~Beermann, Jack Michael. (Professor of Law and Harry Elwood Warren Schoolar, BU School of Law' "Qualified Immunity and Constitutional Avoidance" Boston University School of Law Working Paper No. 09-51. December 2, 2009 ~ NB |
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+This two-pronged formulation of the qualified immunity standard36 lasted only seven years. |
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+would prevail before trial, which was the stated motivation for the change. |
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+Police misconduct cases clog courts |
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+Osnos 2k: Evan Osnos, Tribune Staff WriterChicago Tribune. "City to try mediation of cop brutality cases". November 15, 2000. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-11-15/news/0011150315'1'civil-rights-cases-mediation-police-department. RW |
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+Hoping to avert costly legal battles over alleged police brutality, the City of Chicago |
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+AND |
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+seized evidence without a warrant and were later sued by the man for financial |
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+Court clog 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 |
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+Personal effects: The hidden costs of greater workloads. The hallmark of federal justice |
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+AND |
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+would raise the most serious questions of the future course of the nation. |
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+Court clog leads to poor decisions and hurts the minorities the worst- turns case |
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+Brunt 15 ~Alexa Van Brunt, "Poor people rely on public defenders who are too overworked to defend them" Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/17/poor-rely-public-defenders-too-overworked, June 17, 2015.~ |
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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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+This group bears the brunt of our public defender systems’ underfunding and overwork. |