Tournament: Damus | Round: 2 | Opponent: | Judge: Li-Ren Chang
Branse David Branse (2015 TOC finalist) “The Role of the Judge” NSD Update September 4th 2015 http://nsdupdate.com/2015/09/04/the-role-of-the-judge-by-david-branse-part-one/ JW
First, the resolution...judge in-round.
VC: max happiness
Judicial resources are overstretched but qualified immunity doctrine allows quick dismissal of frivolous suits – the plan would clog the courts
Putnam and Ferris 92 (Charles Putnam, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Office of the New Hampshire Attorney General, J.D. 1985, University of Connecticut. Charles Ferris, J.D. 1992, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, New Hampshire.)“DEFENDING A MALIGNED DEFENSE: THE POLICY BASES OF THE QUALIFIED IMMUNITY DEFENSE IN ACTIONS UNDER 42 U.S.C. § 1983” BRIDGEPORT LAW REVIEW QUINNIPIAC COLLEGE Volume 12 Number 3 Spring 1992 LADI
A second policy...under section 1983.2
Court backlog hurts civil rights and discrimination cases first (such as cases in which police violate civil rights)
PFAW ’15 People For the American Way is dedicated to making the promise of America real for every American: Equality. Freedom of speech. Freedom of religion. The right to seek justice in a court of law. The right to cast a vote that counts., 2015, “Overloaded Courts, Not Enough Judges: The Impact on Real People”, http://www.pfaw.org/sites/default/files/lower_federal_courts.pdf,
Courts play a...and copyright infringement.
Qualified immunity prevents frivolous lawsuits that deter police action, threatening public safety
Rosen 05 (Michael, attorney in San Diego at Fish and Richardson PC, an intellectual property law fIrm. In 2003-2004 he served as a law clerk to The Honorable Marilyn L. Huff, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.) “A Qualified Defense: In Support of the Doctrine of Qualified Immunity in Excessive Force Cases, With Some Suggestions for its Improvement” Golden Gate University Law Review Volume 35 | Issue 2 Article 2, 2005 LADI
It is hard...treating all citizens.
Police disengagement causes massive spikes in crime that kill far more people than the police themselves
Heather Mac Donald 16 (Heather Mac Donald, Thomas W. Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to City Journal, ) The Ferguson effect, Washington Post 7-20-2016 LADI
The most controversial...lives being lost.
Impact is at least 50,000 violent crimes per year- Williams and Davey 16
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/us/murder-crime-fbi.html?_r=0 U.S. Murders Surged in 2015, F.B.I. Finds
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS and MONICA DAVEYSEPT. 26, 2016 (Thomas Chatterton Williams is an American writer in Paris and the author of a memoir, “Losing My Cool.”)( monica davey- Chicago Bureau Chief, The New York Times, bachelor’s degree in linguistics from Brown University.) SM
Murder and violent crime rates are rising nationally- 50,000 more violent crimes occurred in 2015 than 2014.
The F.B.I. report...have been shot.
Turns the case – increase in crime swamp prison reform efforts
Jason Willick 15 (Jason Willick, ) Violent Crime Wave Could Swamp Prison Reform, American Interest 9-2-2015 LADI
We aren’t criminologists...the boom may be.
Police won’t be successfully prosecuted
Tully 16 (Author Attorney Joseph Tully) Police Brutality: Fed by Prosecutors, DAs, Judges, Tully andamp; Weiss 9-12-2016 LADI
On December 3, 2014,...protect our citizens.
