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Report
An Evaluation of Judicial Case Management Under the Civil Justice Reform Act
The report describes the effects of the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 (CJRA) case management principles on time to disposition, costs, and participants' satisfaction and views of fairness.
Dec 31, 1995
Report
An Evaluation of Mediation and Early Neutral Evaluation Under the Civil Justice Reform Act
The report describes an assessment of the effects of six different alternative dispute resolution (ADR) programs that included mediation and early neutral evaluation.
Dec 31, 1995
Report
Implementation of the Civil Justice Reform Act in Pilot and Comparison Districts
The report traces the stages in the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 (CJRA) implementation: the recommendations of the advisory groups, the plans adopted by the districts, and the plans actually implemented.
Dec 31, 1995
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
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
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.
Dec 31, 1994
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
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
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.
Dec 31, 1993
Report
How to improve civil justice policy
How to improve civil justice policy
Jan 1, 1993
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
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
Report
Report Decision-Making Patterns Among Mandated Child Abuse Reporters
The goal of this investigation was to examine whether reporting decisions could be described by a coherent process that was consistent across incidents of suspected abuse.
Jan 1, 1990
Report
Strategies for Reducing Civil Delay in Los Angeles Superior Court: Technical Appendixes
Contains the technical appendixes to R-3762, which presents findings about the causes of civil case delay in the Los Angeles Superior Court and proposes strategies for attacking the problem.
Jan 1, 1990
Report
Statistical Overview of Civil Litigation in the Federal Courts
Presents a longitudinal study of filing patterns in federal district courts and of the time taken to dispose of cases in those courts.
Jan 1, 1990

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Courts

Topic Synonyms:
Bar;
Judiciary;
Tribunal

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