Chief Justice John Roberts and the Loss of Access to Justice
Publisher
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Date
2016-1-14
Devotees of federal judicial procedure were pleased to find that U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts committed the entirety of his 2015 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary to procedure in the federal courts. It may sound like an arcane topic, but civil cases are the most common kind of case heard by federal courts, and civil procedure offers a set of rules to help ensure fairness for people seeking justice in response to corporate wrongdoing, among other matters. Unfortunately — but, alas, not surprisingly — the chief justice’s musings only confirmed that the liberal ethos that once animated our unique approach to federal civil litigation has been soundly put to rest.
Citation
A. Benjamin Spencer, Chief Justice John Roberts and the Loss of Access to Justice, Richmond Times-Dispatch (January 14, 2016).