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wlesieutre · on Feb 4, 2016

And hotels and restaurants and anything else that travelers use while in town for lawsuits.

It's like a tourism business except instead of being a nice place that people want to go, you drag them there with $625M blackmail.

The people on these juries know that if they stop being a haven for patent trolls, the cash cow goes away.

st3v3r · on Feb 4, 2016

I'm 75-90% sure federal judges are on salary, and are not paid by the case. At least I hope this is so.

DannyBee · on Feb 4, 2016

Federal judges are salaried and appointed for life except in cases of impeachment.

brianwawok · on Feb 4, 2016

But the number of judges is based on caseload.

If they changed something so caseload fell by 75%, do you think some judges might lose their job?

schoen · on Feb 5, 2016

Nope, not in the Federal court system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judge#Te...

No Federal judge has ever been fired due to a reduction in the number of positions on the judge's court. (It's quite possible that a decreased caseload could result in fewer new judicial confirmations, but that affects would-be judges, not presently-serving judges.)