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Thirty-Two Years On The Federal Bench: Some Things I Have Learned, Judge Emmett Ripley Cox
Thirty-Two Years On The Federal Bench: Some Things I Have Learned, Judge Emmett Ripley Cox
Florida Law Review
In this Essay, prepared as the basis for the 2014 Dunwody Distinguished Lecture in Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, Judge Cox discusses a few things he learned from his experience as a trial judge and later as an appellate judge. Specifically, he addresses how the proliferation of federal law—both criminal and civil—imposes a real burden on the federal courts. This proliferation has negatively affected pleading and pretrial procedures in the federal court system. Additionally, he discusses what lawyers can do about these pleading and pretrial problems.
Over the course of his career Judge Cox have …