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Category : Actions and defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Civil Jury Cases and Verdicts in Large Counties
Author: Civil Trial Cases and Verdicts in Large Counties, 1996
Author: Carol J. DeFrancesPublisher:
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Category : Actions and defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Contract Cases in Large Counties
Author: Carol J. DeFrancesPublisher:
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Category : Civil practice
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Tort Trials and Verdicts in Large Counties, 1996
Author: Marika F. X. LitrasPublisher:
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Category : Damages
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Tort Trials and Verdicts in Large Counties, 1996
Author: Marika F. X. LitrasPublisher:
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Category : Damages
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Comparative Justice - Civil Jury Verdicts in San Francisco and Cook Counties, 1959-1980
Author: Rand CorporationDeep Pockets, Empty Pockets
Author: Audrey ChinPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This report examines how different types of parties fared in over 9,000 civil jury trials in Cook County, Illinois, between 1959 and 1979. It builds on two previous studies of civil jury trials, The Civil Jury: Trends in Trials and Verdicts, Cook County, Illinois 1960-1979, R-2881-ICJ, and Compensation of Injuries: Civil Jury Verdicts in Cook County, R-3011-ICJ. These studies found substantial disparities in outcomes for different types of lawsuits, even after the types and seriousness of plaintiffs' injuries and the amount of claimed economic losses were accounted for. The analyses in the present report describe variations in outcomes for different types of litigants, and find that corporate defendants paid damage awards that were one-third larger than those that individual defendants had to pay. Government defendants paid even more than corporations in most of their lawsuits. However, corporations fared worse than all other defendants in lawsuits where plaintiffs claimed very severe injuries. Among individual litigants, blacks lost more often than whites, both as plaintiffs and defendants, and black plaintiffs received smaller awards. Black defendants, however, paid less than their white counterparts.
Jury Verdicts and the "crisis" in Civil Justice
Author: Stephen DanielsPublisher:
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Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Civil Juries in the 1980s
Author: Mark A. PetersonPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
This report extends earlier efforts to document and analyze the outcomes produced by the civil justice system based on studies of civil jury trials in Cook County, Illinois, and San Francisco County, California. First, the report updates the earlier work by incorporating data for the years 1980 through 1984. Second, it expands the scope of the study to include the entire state of California. Past patterns in jury awards continued in Cook County during the 1980s: The size of most jury awards did not increase (the median actually fell), but large jury awards, and therefore the average, increased sharply. The pattern that prevailed in both jurisdictions during the 1960s and 1970s, however, changed in San Francisco: There was a substantial increase in the size of awards during the 1980s across the entire range of cases tried in state and federal courts. Unlike past findings, the increase was not restricted to a few very large awards. The average award increased as in previous years, but median awards also increased to triple the median of the late 1970s.
Verdict
Author: Robert E. LitanPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 081572019X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
The right to a jury trial is a fundamental feature of the American justice system. In recent years, however, aspects of the civil jury system have increasingly come under attack. Many question the ability of lay jurors to decide complex scientific and technical questions that often arise in civil suits. Others debate the high and rising costs of litigation, the staggering delay in resolving disputes, and the quality of justice. Federal and state courts, crowded with growing numbers of criminal cases, complain about handling difficult civil matters. As a result, the jury trial is effectively being challenged as a means for resolving disputes in America. Juries have been reduced in size, their selection procedures altered, and the unanimity requirement suspended. For many this development is viewed as necessary. For others, it arouses deep concern. In this book, a distinguished group of scholars, attorneys, and judges examine the civil jury system and discuss whether certain features should be modified or reformed. The book features papers presented at a conference cosponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association, together with an introductory chapter by Robert E. Litan. While the authors present competing views of the objectives of the civil jury system, all agree that the jury still has and will continue to have an important role in the American system of civil justice. The book begins with a brief history of the jury system and explains how juries have become increasingly responsible for decisions of great difficulty. Contributors then provide an overview of the system's objectives and discuss whether, and to what extent, actual practice meets those objectives. They summarize how juries function and what attitudes lawyers, judges, litigants, former jurors, and the public at large hold about the current system. The second half of the book is devoted to a wide range of recommendations that w