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pwalker8 · 08-14-2013, 07:14 PM

I was googling to try to see what the latest is on when consumers can start to see anything back from the publisher's settlements (end of this month is the rumor, but nothing official yet), and ran across an article on CNN from a few days ago talking about Judge Cote (rather negative article. It's easy to find if you are interested). In the article, they included a link to a judicial review site which rates various judges. Judge Cotes page is rather interesting. Here is the link.

http://www.therobingroom.com/Judge.a...=1403#comments

For those interested, take a look and scroll down through the comments. It's rather interesting. There are a number of reviews that complain that she tends to pre-judge cases before seeing the evidence. One comment references to her deciding who is the good guy and who is the bad guy and acting accordingly during the trial. There are numerous comments like this going back to 2009. It's not all negative. She gets high marks for preparation and attention to details. But all in all, I find it interesting that the same complaints that observers made about her in the Apple case have been made about her for a number of years. Doesn't mean she will be overturned, but it does give a bit of validity towards the complaints about her.

08-14-2013, 07:14 PM	#56
pwalker8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,196 Karma: 70314280 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Device: iPad Pro, iPad mini, Kobo Aura, Amazon paperwhite, Sony PRS-T2	I was googling to try to see what the latest is on when consumers can start to see anything back from the publisher's settlements (end of this month is the rumor, but nothing official yet), and ran across an article on CNN from a few days ago talking about Judge Cote (rather negative article. It's easy to find if you are interested). In the article, they included a link to a judicial review site which rates various judges. Judge Cotes page is rather interesting. Here is the link. http://www.therobingroom.com/Judge.a...=1403#comments For those interested, take a look and scroll down through the comments. It's rather interesting. There are a number of reviews that complain that she tends to pre-judge cases before seeing the evidence. One comment references to her deciding who is the good guy and who is the bad guy and acting accordingly during the trial. There are numerous comments like this going back to 2009. It's not all negative. She gets high marks for preparation and attention to details. But all in all, I find it interesting that the same complaints that observers made about her in the Apple case have been made about her for a number of years. Doesn't mean she will be overturned, but it does give a bit of validity towards the complaints about her.