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Punitive Damages: Empirical Findings

Based on cases that reached jury verdict in Cook County, Illinois, and San Francisco, California, from 1960 to 1984, this report presents analytically derived answers to questions surrounding the award of punitive damages.

Jan 1, 1987
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Getting Inside the Black Box: Toward A Better Understanding of Civil Jury Behavior

Advocates the use of systematic empirical research on civil jury behavior as an important tool in the policymaking process. The author discusses the methods that have been used for studying jury behavior,...

Jan 1, 1987
Research Brief

Opening the Black Box of Civil Jury Behavior: A Summary of Research Results, 1987

Drawing on social and cognitive psychology and on criminal jury research, Robert MacCoun outlines approaches that can provide data essential to legislative and judicial policymakers who seek to understand how civil juries arrive at decisions.

Jan 1, 1987
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Trends in Tort Litigation: The Story Behind the Statistics

The research suggests that discrepancies among the statistics on tort litigation can be explained by the fact that there is no longer, if there ever was, a single tort system.

Dec 31, 1986
Report

The Debate over Jury Performance: Observations From A Recent Asbestos Case

This case study describes an interview conducted with the jury that decided an asbestos products liability case in Texas in 1984.

Dec 31, 1986
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The Prevalence, Predictability, and Policy Implications of Recidivism

Examines the accuracy of both assumptions and the implications for policies regarding the length of sentences imposed.

Jan 1, 1986
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Changes in the tort system: helping inform the policy debate

This paper is extracted from the Director's Report in the Institute for Civil Justice's (ICJ) Report on the First Six Program Years, April 1980-March 1986. It reviews findings of the ICJ's research on the civil justice system regarding (1) civil jury...

Jan 1, 1986
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A Summary of Research Results: Trends and Patterns in Civil Jury Verdicts

This paper draws on the author's analysis of civil jury verdicts rendered between 1960 and 1979 in Cook County, Illinois, and San Francisco, California.

Jan 1, 1986
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Judging consent

This paper was originally presented at a symposium on consent decrees, and appeared in the University of Chicago Legal Forum, Vol. 1987. It explores the growing interest in consent degrees, by which lawsuits are resolved with the issuance of a judgme...

Jan 1, 1986
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Court-Annexed Arbitration: The National Picture

Reports the findings of a national survey to determine the current status of court-annexed arbitration among state and federal trial courts, and is an update of a similar survey conducted by The Institute for Civil Justice in 1980, and published as R2732

Jan 1, 1985
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Granting Felons Probation: Public Risks and Alternatives

Represents the first systematic research on felony probationers. It is based on data on individuals convicted of selected serious felonies in Superior Court in California, who would have been likely candidates for prison.

Jan 1, 1985
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Summarizing RAND's Study of Adult Felony Probation

This paper is the text of a briefing presented to the U.S. Department of Justice on the results of research performed at RAND and published in RAND/R-3186-NIJ, Granting Felons Probation: Public Risks and Alternatives.

Jan 1, 1985
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Punitive Damages: Preliminary Empirical Findings

Presents preliminary information on punitive damages awarded between 1959 and 1984 by juries in Cook County, Illinois, and San Francisco County, California.

Jan 1, 1985
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Comparative Negligence and Jury Behavior

Examines the effect of the comparative negligence law with respect to the increase in awards to plaintiffs who take their case to trial.

Jan 1, 1985
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Court-annexed arbitration in the state trial court system

Research effort has been directed toward investigating the use of court-annexed arbitration in the state trial courts, and evaluating the effectiveness of this type of arbitration for managing the civil caseload and alleviating the burdens that the l...

Jan 1, 1984
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Reforming the civil litigation process: how court arbitration may help

This paper, originally published in the New Jersey Bell Journal, Summer 1984, describes some factors contributing to the congestion, delay, and expense that currently trouble the country's civil courts. It describes court-administered arbitration, an...

Jan 1, 1984
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Managing the Unmanageable: A History of Civil Delay in the Los Angeles Superior Court

This study of civil delay and congestion in the Los Angeles Superior Court since the early twentieth century is an effort to provide an empirical basis for determining the extent to which these problems have worsened over the years.

Jan 1, 1984
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California Enacts Prejudgment Interest: A Case Study of Legislative Action

Presents a case study of one of the most controversial actions of the 1981-1982 California legislative sessions: passage of mandatory prejudgment interest on personal injury awards (SB 203).

Jan 1, 1984
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Variation in Asbestos Litigation Compensation and Expenses

This report analyzes characteristics of individual claims that explain variation in compensation and expenses.

Dec 31, 1983
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Jury Awards and Prejudgment Interest in Tort Cases

Reports the preliminary results of research which empirically examines issues central to the prejudgment interest policy debate.

Jan 1, 1983

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Courts

Topic Synonyms:
Bar;
Judiciary;
Tribunal

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