He did not seek out witnesses at random; rather their court, with the help of local leaders in Williamsburg, gave him the name of a victim.
The tally of Nadal's ailments over the years is honestly not as impressive as that of many professional athletes: a stress fracture in his left foot, a banged-up elbow from a fall outside a tennis court, random knee and joint pains, the tendinitis.
For the whole scheme to work, a law enforcement official said, the group needed to subvert the random assignment method the court employs to guard against corruption.
By replacing annual checkups with random strip searches, the Court raised worries in the health-care community that patients would not get the care they need, but those concerns were brushed aside by Justice Samuel Alito.
If the weather didn't give Mills enough headaches, then the sight of a simmering John McEnroe beckoning him on to court at random intervals must have made him wonder why he had taken on the job in the first place.
He noted in the footnote that during recesses in the trial, reporters, analysts and legal commentators would rush into the halls, turn on their cell phones and the stocks of the two companies "would bob or dip in response to some random comment by the court, the trial lawyers, or a particular witness".
As a result, the defense must be prepared to shoot from the hip when a random person strolls into court.
Under the court system's random assignment method, some of Mr. Siminovsky's cases did land before Justice Garson, but his advantage was really a payback for the meals and drinks he routinely bought for the judge, according to criminal complaints accusing the judge, Mr. Siminovsky and two court employees of a conspiracy to fix divorce and child custody cases.
If court awards were random, one would expect many more cases to go to court as there would be an expectation of an award even where there was no negligence.
These aren't court notes, memos or unimportant random pieces of evidence, they're physical devices with serial numbers and names attached.
It reopened on Friday, after a $4,000 fine and under court-ordered stipulations that include random inspections and severe restrictions on buying used bikes.
