On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Ed Murphy wrote: > Kolja wrote: > > > Wouldn't that mean that appeals are always judged by a panel biased > > against the original judgement? > > That's not what "favor/disfavor" mean; they mean "I do/don't want this > case assigned to me", regardless of how they would judge it if it was.
One *could* use favor to try to deliver a favorable judgement that a scam worked, but to date we've been really well-behaved with that; disfavoring (used most often) means "this case is too complicated/too uninteresting for me to want to judge it right now" (or, "I am not a neutral party so don't assign it to me") and "favor" is almost always used for "what an interesting case! I'd love to be the judge." -G.
