Elitism

I love it when judges slip for a minute and betray some great disdain for juries. Even better when it's tinged with envy for their counterparts overseas unencumbered by the unwashed masses:

It is a quiddity of our law that a well and thoroughly reasoned decision reached by a highly skilled and scientifically informed justice of the Patent Court, Chancery Division, in the High Court of Justice of Great Britain after four weeks of trial must be ignored and essentially the same issues with the same evidence must now be retried by American jurors with no background in science or patents, whose average formal education will be no more than high school.

Cuno Inc. v. Pall Corporation, 729 F.Supp. 234 (E.D.N.Y. 1989).