I had the opportunity to hear Chief U.S. District Judge Janet Hall give her annual “state of the district” report to the Connecticut Bar Association’s Federal Practice Section the other day. One of the pleasures of being bar president is getting to be a fly on the wall as learned and collegial groups such as the federal section gather to celebrate the good things they have accomplished together and mourn those who have left us.
One interesting piece of information was that the number of completed jury trials in Connecticut federal courts have significantly increased in the last year, a trend that has been continuing on the federal side, leading Hall to muse that if the late Mark Kravitz had been around, he would have been surprised, if not chagrined, at this development. A decade ago, Judge Kravitz famously wrote on the vanishing jury trial and despaired over what the loss of trial and appellate decisions meant for the development of the common law.
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