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Submitted December 18, 2005 - 12:42 pm by Reber Boult
I wonder if the assignment of the second case was really supposed to be random.  Many, if not most, courts have a policy or written rule saying that when a second case is filed that's "related" to a pending case, it will be assigned to the judge who has the first case.  Of course if they do have such a rule but are claiming the assignment happened randomly, that's smelly.

I also wonder (and am right now either too busy or too lazy to look it up, just like I am on whether there's a written "related case" rule in D.C.) whether the Freedom of Information Act exempts from disclosure courts' administrative work, like assignment and reassignment of cases.

I guess Kafka or Heller or Orwell could have commented better than I about a judge whose normally public papers are made secret by his invocation of "security" decides whether the government can shield its misbehavior with an assertion of "security."  I'm not going to hold my breath for a disclosure on January 1.

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