The Court will not hesitate to impose appropriate sanctions, including potentially substantial costs, should the Defendant waste either the Plaintiffs» time and money or
scarce judicial resources by filing frivolous motions in the future.
[T] he process of transferring judges between circuits, as delimited by the Chief Justice's Guidelines, is directed strictly toward meeting judicial necessities, whereas the transfer in this case would serve a different purpose... [H] aving the district judge who conducted MDL pre-trial proceedings also preside over the trial of the case can improve judicial efficiency,
preserve scarce judicial resources and enhance MDL judges» control over their proceedings.
But we have a concurrent obligation — to taxpayers, and more importantly to the children of relentless litigators — to prevent embittered parents from
abusing scarce judicial resources: We need to identify those parents who just come here to fight.
Delta cited a section of the ruling stating that, in the allocation
of scarce judicial resources, those «with a personal stake in the outcome» should get priority.
«If this works it could be revolutionary: it could free up
scarce judicial resources and provide for a far less expensive dispute - resolution process,» says Winkler, principal and founder of Winkler Dispute Resolution.
Private standing has traditionally been viewed as the best way to operate our justice system because: it prevents mere «busybodies» from using up
scarce judicial resources; it ensures contending points of view are raised by those personally invested in the case; and it preserves the proper role of courts and their relationship to the other branches of government.
As a result of
the scarce judicial resources, judges must make decisions about how to best use these resources if the public system wants to maintain its position as the primary system in adjudicating civil disputes and in driving the development of civil case law.