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+====First, qualified immunity is key to prevent court clog as it keeps a very large amount of unnecessary cases out of the court system. The affirmative opens the floodgates, crushing the court system.==== |
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+**Putnam 92** Charles T. Putnam Senior Assistant Attorney General, New Hampshire and Charles T. Ferris JD, Franklin Pierce Law Center, “Defending a Maligned Defense: The Policy Bases of the Qualified Immunity Defense in Actions Under 42 USC 1983,” Bridgeport Law Review, Vol. 12, 1992. |
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+National resources are obviously scarce ... the courts and defendants facing suit. |
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+====Court clog increases the cost of civil litigation and the amount of time it takes for civil cases to get to trial, which turns case.==== |
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+**Thanawala 15** Sudhin Legal affairs expert and reporter for US News and Associated Press “Overloaded federal courts lead to delays in civil, criminal cases as judges try to keep up,” US News, September 27, 2015. |
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+Across the country, federal district courts have seen a rise ... he Eastern District of Texas has seen similar increases. |
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+====Court clog decreases the quality of judgments, which turns case.==== |
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+**Oakley 96** John B. “The Myth of Cost-Free Jurisdictional Reallocation.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 543, 1996, pp. 52–63. www.jstor.org/stable/1048447 |
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+Personal effects: The hidden costs of greater workloads. The ... in the long run it will cause the present system to collapse. |