The judge estimated a swift $2 billion payout — or $60,000 each — for victimized black farmers.
Another judge estimated last year that the firm generated $125,000 every two weeks — or $3.3 million a year — filing motions that start the process of seizing borrowers' homes.
Mr. Christensen will go on trial after the conclusion of the main case, which the judge estimated would last two months.
At the federal courthouse in Laredo, George P. Kazen, the senior judge, estimated that under Operation Streamline, the Justice Department program relying on plea deals for efficiency, he had sentenced more people to prison than any other active federal judge.
Steve Hutcheson, 60, a furniture and textile designer from Cold Spring who is a United States Figure Skating Association judge, estimated per-member costs for ice rental and coaching expenses at $2,500 to $2,800 a year.
Timberlake, the retired judge, estimated that roughly 900 parole revocations are heard monthly in Illinois courts.
An eighth or ninth grade education, the judges estimated, should give students the preparation needed to serve on a jury and stay off welfare.
The IOC will pay travel costs to the host city and room and board for the athletes and judges, estimated at $11 million.
In 2000, Kaufman et al. compared the Angoff method (different from the modified Angoff, whereby judges estimate 'the probability that a 'minimally acceptable' or borderline candidate would answer an item correctly') [ 13] and the BG method, and found that both provide reasonable and defensible results in the medical school setting [ 6].
