Civil Procedure
Oct. 2, 2025
Beyond justice is mercy
In legal terms, mercy might be closest to equity because both seek to find a remedy beyond the structures of what the justice system would otherwise provide.
Judicial officers are confronted every day; we take the bench with an ever more complex set of circumstances. For 10 years, my assignment was family law. Along with new family structures, new gender identifications and extended and multi-family living conditions, we are now tasked with learning within a few weeks' time how to navigate new protocols, technologies, challenges on how to assess credibility, and pleadings increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. In a world ...
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