Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Appeal of appeals

2012-11-12 Thread Kerim Aydin
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 judg

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Appeal of appeals

2012-11-12 Thread Ed Murphy
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.

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Appeal of appeals

2012-11-12 Thread Klaus Herrmanns
Wouldn't that mean that appeals are always judged by a panel biased against the original judgement?   I don't like that for several reasons: - generally, designing bias into judge selection doesn't rhyme with my real likfe understanding of justice as a neutral decision maker - seems to make it ha