Ryan Goodman, a law professor at New York University, and his research team tracked more than 400 lawsuits involving the Trump administration and included only cases in which judges explicitly expressed criticisms of the government's conduct.
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methodology
Scope and case-selection criteria of a research project tracking judicial criticisms of government conduct.
The Goodman research project categorized judicial criticisms into three categories and reported over 15 cases in which courts found government non-compliance with court orders; over 35 cases in which courts said the government provided false or highly misleading information including false sworn declarations; and over 50 cases in which courts found the government's actions to be arbitrary and capricious.
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statistical
Quantified findings from a project categorizing instances of explicit judicial criticism of government conduct.