The decision revives a lawsuit filed by 94 women who said their OB-GYN sexually abused them. Previously, a lower court determined that the actions they alleged had to be treated as medical malpractice.
The decision revives a lawsuit filed by 94 women who said their OB-GYN sexually abused them. Previously, a lower court determined that the actions they alleged had to be treated as medical malpractice.
It’s insane to me that judges can just make these stupid ass rulings that are obviously wrong and just never face any consequences. Like why hasn’t that lower court judge been removed from his position for clearly making a biased ruling to protect a sexual abuser???
It really sounds like bad legislation over a bad judge to me.
Supreme Court judges get more latitude to decide that the laws themselves are nonsense. Lower level judges are more bound to the actual laws themselves. As a judge, your personal ethics matter, but only to an extent. You’re ultimately supposed to be ruling based on the actual laws/precedent relevant to the case, even if you don’t like it.
Sure bro, that’s why Aileen Cannon got removed from Trump’s cases.
Immunity.
I suppose that literally answers my question. Lol
Yeah, it’s almost impossible to remove a sitting judge. For federal judges, they have lifetime appointments and the only option to remove them is impeachment. Only 15 federal judges have been impeached, 8 being convicted in the US history. State judges are elected, and only 18 states have a recall process, which is lengthy and heavily stacked in the judge’s favor. So the only reasonable way to remove them is to elect someone else, when their term ends.
And they have absolute immunity for all judicial actions.
Haven’t read the lower court opinion but I wouldn’t be shocked if there was another past precedent on medical malpractice in the region that bound the judge under to make that outcome until a higher court could reverse them.