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Just, Speedy, and Inexpensive? An Evaluation of Judicial Case Management Under the CJRA

Examined the effects of the CJRA's (Civil Justice Reform Ac) case management principles on time to disposition, costs, and participants' satisfaction and views of fairness.

Jan 1, 1996
Report

Just, Speedy, and Inexpensive? : An Evaluation of Judicial Case Management Under the Civil Justice Reform Act

This executive summary provides an overview of the purpose of the CJRA (Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990), the basic design of the evaluation, the key findings, and their policy implications.

Jan 1, 1996
Report

Forecasting enrollments during court-ordered desegregation

Forecasting enrollments during court-ordered desegregation

Jan 1, 1996
Report

Drug court or probation? : an experimental evaluation of Maricopa County's drug court

Drug court or probation? : an experimental evaluation of Maricopa County's drug court

Jan 1, 1996
Research Brief

Trends in Civil Jury Verdicts: New Data from 15 Jurisdictions

Makes an empirical contribution to the policy debate over tort reform.

Jan 1, 1996
Report

Trends in Civil Jury Verdicts Since 1985

This report describes all civil jury verdicts reached from 1985 to 1994 in the state courts of general jurisdiction in 15 jurisdictions across the nation and identifies trends in these verdicts.

Jan 1, 1996
Testimony

Improving Jury Comprehension in Criminal and Civil Trials

This publication contains the written statement of Robert MacCoun submitted on July 27, 1995, to the Judiciary Committee of the California State Senate.

Jan 1, 1995
Report

Perceptions of punishment : inmates and staff rank the severity of prison versus intermediate sanctions

Perceptions of punishment : inmates and staff rank the severity of prison versus intermediate sanctions

Jan 1, 1995
Research Brief

Evaluating the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990

The Civil Justice Reform Act (CJRA) of 1990 is rooted in more than a decade of concern that cases in federal courts take too long and cost litigants too much. As a consequence, proponents of reform argue, some individuals are denied access to justice.

Jan 1, 1995
Report

Trends in Patent Litigation: The Apparent Influence of Strengthened Patents Attributable to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Trends in patent litigation : the apparent influence of strengthened patents attributable to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Jan 1, 1995
Report

Whose judgment? : vacating judgment, preferences for settlement, and the role of adjudication at the close of the twentieth century

Whose judgment? : vacating judgment, preferences for settlement, and the role of adjudication at the close of the twentieth century

Jan 1, 1995
Report

Three Strikes and You’re Out: Estimated Benefits and Costs of California’s New Mandatory-Sentencing Law

The authors report on the benefits and costs of California's new mandatory-sentencing law, which provides for progressively longer sentences with an increasing number of prior convictions for serious felonies.

Jan 1, 1994
Research Brief

California's New Three-Strikes Law: Benefits, Costs, and Alternatives

How much crime reduction can they expect from the three-strikes law? And how much will it cost? What about the alternatives? And where will the money come from?

Jan 1, 1994
Research Brief

Escaping the Courthouse

Crowded courts and escalating litigation costs are fueling demand for private alternatives to courts. But not everyone thinks that the burgeoning market in private courts and private judges is desirable.

Jan 1, 1994
Report

Preliminary Observations on Implementation of the Pilot Program of the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990

The RAND Institute for Civil Justice is evaluating the pilot program of the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 at the request of the Judicial Conference of the United States.

Jan 1, 1994
Report

Inside the Black Box: What Empirical Research Tells Us about Decisionmaking by Civil Juries

This article discusses the potential contribution to the policymaking process of systematic empirical research on the behavior of civil juries.

Jan 1, 1994
Report

Is There a Deep-Pocket Bias in the Tort System? The Concern over Biases Against Deep-Pocket Defendants

There is a wide-spread perception that America's tort system is biased against so-called deep-pocket defendants. This paper summarizes what we know and don't know about deep-pocket biases.

Jan 1, 1993
Report

How to improve civil justice policy

How to improve civil justice policy

Jan 1, 1993
Report

Bright Hopes, Dim Realities: Vocational Innovation in American Correctional Education

To shed new light on the history of correctional education in America and on the implications of that history for reform in correctional education in the 1990s, this Note identifies some general tendencies in the history of correctional education ...

Jan 1, 1992
Report

Racial Disparities in Sentencing Decisions

Discusses the distinction between racial disparity and racial discrimination; summarizes what is known about racial bias in capital and non-capital cases; and points out the reasons that the serious limitations of the research methods in this field...

Jan 1, 1991

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RAND Topic:
Courts

Topic Synonyms:
Bar;
Judiciary;
Tribunal

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