Grewal's statement is unusually thoughtful for a court order. While federal district courts may resolve cases through default judgments, summary judgments or by convening settlement conferences, sometimes a trial is necessary, he wrote. "Even though the overwhelming majority of cases are resolved by these and other means, we are not referred to in passing as judgment courts, or settlement courts. We are referred to as trial courts because, in the end, some cases just need to be tried," he wrote.

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