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56 Stan. L. Rev. 1435 (2003-2004)
Inequitable Injunctions: The Scandal of Private Judging in the U.S. Courts

handle is hein.journals/stflr56 and id is 1449 raw text is: INEQUITABLE INJUNCTIONS: THE SCANDAL OF PRIVATE JUDGING IN THE U.S. COURTS Penelope Pether* INTRODUCTION.................................................. 1436 I. ORIGINS AND CURRENT STATE OF THE PRIVATE JUDGING PRACTICES ............ 1442 A. Unpublication............................................................................................ 1442 1. Origins.................................................................................................... 1442 2. The current state of unpublication.......................................................... 1465 B. Stipulated Withdrawal ............................................................................... 1474 C. Depublication ............................................................................................ 1479 II. THE CASE AGAINST PRIVATE JUDGING .......................................................... 1483 A. Rule of Law Problems with Private Judging ............................................. 1483 B. Inequality Effects of Private Judging on Marginalized Groups ................ 1504 C. Responses to Counterarguments ................................................................ 1515 III. CURRENT PROSPECTS FOR REFORM .............................................................. 1528 CONCLUSION....................................................................................................... 1535 * B.A., LL.B., Ph.D., University of Sydney; Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law. I wish to thank Dean Claudio Grossman for the research support that enabled the writing of this Article; Library Director Billie Jo Kaufman, Senior Reference Librarian Susan Lewis-Somers and Foreign and International Law Librarian Bill Ryan; American University Washington College of Law students Rebecca Kennedy (J.D. 2003) (especially for her work on compiling the first draft of the Appendix), Heather Collier, and Jarrett Perlow (J.D. 2004), and Grant Mogan and Andrew Stawar (J.D. 2005) for research assistance; former colleagues Desmond Manderson, Canada Research Chair in Law and Discourse Co-ordinates at McGill University School of Law, who suggested the phrase inequitable injunctions for the title, and Dr. Joseph Pugliese of the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Australia, for his reading of the scandal; my colleagues Muneer Ahmad, Jonathan Baker, Susan Bennett, Pamela Bridgewater, Amy Dillard, Ian Gallacher, Christine Haight Farley, Mark Niles, Peter Jaszi, Teemu Ruskola, Brenda Smith, Janet Spragens, Robert Vaughn, and Leti Volpp, for helpful suggestions about various aspects of this Article; Professor Arthur Jacobson and Dr. Helen Stacy for encouragement at critical stages in the project; Professor Judith Resnik for thoughtful comments on an advanced draft; and, as always, David Caudill. This Article is dedicated to Bill Priestley, one of Her Majesty's Counsel for the Australian state of New South Wales and formerly a Justice of the New South Wales Court of Appeal, and George Masterman, also one of Her Majesty's Counsel for New South Wales, formerly New South Wales Ombudsman, for everything they taught me about ethical judging and about transparency and due process, respectively. 1435

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