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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Oh, I'm sure there are federal judges who haven't been overturned. The point is that since Judge Cote has been overturned (the most recent was one this past fall, which I pointed to in the previous thread about this case, some that I found with a casual search include Tyco v Walsh, Barclays v Theflyon thewall.com and Caiola v Citibank, there are others) the assumption that she won't be overturned because she wrote such a detailed judgment doesn't hold water.
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I'm not so sure. I highly doubt there is a U.S. federal district judge who has been on the bench for as long as Cote who has never been overturned "a number of times."
There might be perhaps a rare case of someone who was only a federal judge for a relatively short period of time and so was never overturned. But someone with a tenure a long as Cote? I doubt it.
And I think the feeling is that because Cote's decision was so detailed, covering all the bases, she is less likely to be overturned -- not that she won't be.
--Pat