One important way for courts to maintain the confidence of the public is by randomly assigning cases to judges. All federal district courts, with the exception of the District of Guam, are now ...

I was delighted to see the Judicial Conference of the United States is acting to promote random case assignment in certain declaratory judgment and injunction cases. You can read the press release ...

Random case assignment is a hallmark of the federal justice system. Judges can't shop for cases they like and shunt aside the ones they don't. Otherwise, Medicare cases would never be heard.

A growing number of school districts use centralized assignment mechanisms to allocate school seats in a manner that reflects student preferences and school priorities. Many of these assignment ...