A good step
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 By Mike Maurer
Cheers to Bruce Cadwallader for this reporting and to the Ohio Supreme Court for this initiative: A special commercial docket — or business docket — is expected to streamline the flow of cases, lead to quicker decisions and settlements, and provide a consistency in rulings that is now missing, said Franklin County Common Pleas Judge John P. Bessey, co-chairman of the task force that set up the program with the Supreme Court’s approval. The other co-chairman was Cincinnati lawyer Patrick Fischer, a business-litigation specialist.
Imagine that: an initiative to enable competent judges and competent judging. Until you’ve seen it from the inside, you can’t appreciate how astonishingly bad much of the administration of justice truly is, and complex business litigation is near the top of that list. Now if the Supreme Court could put the same attention into the incompetent judges as it is putting into encouraging the competent ones, they will have accomplished what they should have been doing all along.
