Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Breach of contract
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
California Jury Verdicts Weekly
Author: Jury Verdicts Weekly
Author: Jury Verdicts Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration and award
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Civil Jury Cases and Verdicts in Large Counties
Author: Verdict
Author: Robert E. LitanPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The lives of three refugees trying to make a new home in London are shattered by a love affair, murder, suicide, and false testimony.
Jury Verdicts Database for Cook County, Illinois, and All Counties in California, 1960-1984
Author: Deep Pockets, Empty Pockets
Author: Audrey ChinPublisher:
ISBN:
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 Weekly
Author: Compensation of Injuries
Author: Mark A. PetersonPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This report describes types of injuries and losses claimed by plaintiffs, changes in claims during the 1960s and 1970s, and relationships between juries' decisions and (1) plaintiff's physical injury, (2) the economic loss suffered by plaintiff, (3) the type of lawsuit brought, and (4) the year in which the case was tried. The findings show that neither the types of injuries claimed by plaintiffs nor the level of compensation for most injuries changed appreciably between 1960 and 1980. However, compensation for the small number of cases that involved unusually severe injuries grew in recent years. The findings also show that compensation for similar injuries differed by as much as four-fold among different types of law suits, and that such differences increased in the 1970s. The report offers explanations for why compensation might differ among types of suits and describes further research that will examine some of these possible explanations.
Rand Report
Author: Rand CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description