Lawsuit headed to Supreme Court over judge’s "plagiarism"

This is a very weird story. Lawyers want judges to copy their submissions -- indeed, the main reason to give submissions electronically is to encourage judges to 'cut and paste'. It is common enough for judges to adopt the submissions of one side or another -- that doesn't mean the judge didn't think about the case, it means the judge preferred the side whose submissions were adopted. Well, we'll see what the Supreme Court says:

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"The judge in the original case, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Joel Groves, found that the hospital and doctors were responsible when Cojocaru's uterus ruptured, sending the fetus into her abdominal cavity and depriving it of oxygen for more than 20 minutes.

But Justice Groves' decision to award Cojocaru $4 million in damages was overturned by the B.C. Court of Appeal, which found 321 of 368 paragraphs in his ruling were copied "almost word-for-word" from the prosecution's written submissions."