Judges are not passive receivers of their agendas, as they were traditionally perceived.
Instead, judges can shape their dockets by encouraging potential litigants to bring particular
cases or make specifi c arguments. This encouragement takes the form of judges signaling
their own positions on an issue as well as their colleagues' expected support. This process
is modeled as a signaling game, with both separating and pooling equilibria resulting. The
existence of pooling equilibria is of particular interest, as it suggests that some judges have …

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