capricious

capricious adv., adj. unpredictable and subject to whim, often used to refer to judges and judicial decisions which do not follow the law, logic or proper trial procedure. A semi-polite way of saying a judge is inconsistent or erratic.

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capricious adjective apt to change suddenly, changeable, changeful, changing, erratic, fanciful, fantasied, fantastical, fickle, flighty, fluctuating, giddy, inconstans, inconstant, irresolute, levis, mercurial, reversible, uncertain, uncontrolled, undisciplined, unmethodical, unreliable, unrestrained, unsystematic, vacillating, vagarious, variable, whimsical, without rational basis
Associated concepts: arbitrary and capricious, arbitrary, capriiious and unlawful, review of administrative determination

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See also: aleatory, arbitrary, disordered, haphazard, inconsistent, irresolute, irresponsible, lawless, mutable, uncertain, undependable, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable, unsettled, untrustworthy, variable, volatile