A long line of Supreme Court cases require that judges wait for cases to come to them.
But, given the targets in question — huge banks, well-insulated executives, intricately structured financial products, tens of millions of knotty documents — it's unlikely that a federal prosecutor's office, staffed by generalists and operating under standard procedure, which is to wait for cases to come in, could have made serious headway.
But, given the targets in question huge banks, well-insulated executives, intricately structured financial products, tens of millions of knotty documents—it's unlikely that a federal prosecutor's office, staffed by generalists and operating under standard procedure, which is to wait for cases to come in, could have made serious headway.
Patience is a virtue, and waiting for cases from the financial crisis has certainly called for such a temperament.
Since 2002, the time spent waiting for cases to be disposed of has gone to 95 days, from 76 days, Mr. Jacobson said.
As in the old Soviet days, the Supreme Court continues to meddle in the lower courts, advising judges in advance instead of waiting for cases to arrive on appeal.
It's great that the police are not waiting for cases to be registered but are being proactive," says Rahi's founder, Anuja Gupta.
"If the judiciary can make referrals early, rather than waiting for cases to be fully adjudicated before someone gets assistance," he says, "you will create outcomes that are better for individuals, the legal system and the community".
That is in part because known cases can be compared with selected controls (as opposed to waiting for cases to emerge, which is required by other observational study designs) and in part because of the rare disease assumption, in which OR mathematically becomes an increasingly better approximation of relative risk as disease incidence declines.
Advocates and lawyers said they were waiting for cases to emerge that may force the courts to address the constitutionality of New York's domestic-relations law, which has historically been interpreted to accept only marriages by those of the opposite sex.
