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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
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

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
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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
Research Brief

Civil Delay in Federal Courts: Is It Getting Worse?

This research brief describes an analysis of trends in civil caseloads, time to disposition, and patterns of case resolution in the federal district court system.

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
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

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

Averting Gridlock: Strategies for Reducing Civil Delay in the Los Angeles Superior Court

Delay in the disposition of civil cases in the Los Angeles Superior Court is a severe problem. Litigants who want a jury trial must now typically wait five years from the time they file their cases for the trials to begin.

Dec 31, 1989
Research Brief

Civil Trial Delay in the Los Angeles Superior Court: Breaking the Gridlock

This research brief describes the delay in Los Angeles Superior Court civil trials and suggests long-term options for speeding up the court process.

Dec 31, 1989

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RAND Topic:
Courts

Topic Synonyms:
Bar;
Judiciary;
Tribunal

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