Data Collection for court watchers process:
- Threatens Judicial Independence
- Nothing More Than a “Gotcha” Game
- Is Inherently Misguided Because Courts Have Little Control of Outcomes
- Uniqueness of Our Court Defies Observation by Outsiders (There’s No Way to Understand What We Do)
- Is an Invitation to Unfavorable and Unfair Comparisons
- Reports will Be Misused
- Results Will Be Used to Hurt, Not Help
- Is Good for Problem Diagnosis But Not Cure
- Is Too Expensive
- Could Vulgarize Jurisprudence
- Court watching
- Start court watching
- Court watching programs
- Although from canada, this document has some merit
Links/work for laws regarding judicial campaign fairness