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How Can We Mitigate the Impact of Communication Technologies on the Right to a Fair Trial?

Court practices to protect the right to a fair trial have not kept pace with rapidly evolving electronic communication and devices. In this context, a panel of judges, lawyers, educators, and other experts explored strategies to protect witnesses from intimidation and jurors from compromising their independence.

Apr 10, 2018
Report

Report

Capping Non-Economic Awards in Medical Malpractice Trials: California Jury Verdicts Under MICRA

Assesses the impact of MICRA’s limits on plaintiffs’ awards and attorneys’ fees on final judgments in medical malpractice cases

Dec 17, 2004
Journal Article

Journal Article

Forty Years of Civil Jury Verdicts

Past studies on civil juries have been hampered by lack of data on verdicts spanning a sufficiently long period. Average jury awards tend to be highly variable from year to year, making it difficult to distinguish trends over relatively short periods of time.

Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article

Journal Article

Private Information, Self-Serving Biases, and Optimal Settlement Mechanisms: Theory and Evidence

The law and economics literature on suit and settlement has tended to focus on two alternative conceptual models.

Jan 1, 2003
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Report

Goal Conflict in Juror Assessments of Compensatory and Punitive Damages

Recent tort reform debates have been hindered by a lack of knowledge of how jurors assess damages. Two studies investigated whether jurors are able to appropriately compartmentalize compensatory and punitive damages.

Jan 1, 1999
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Report

Punitive Damages in Financial Injury Jury Verdicts

This report provides the technical details of an Institute for Civil Justice analysis of trends and patterns in punitive damage awards in financial injury cases in selected jurisdictions during the period 1985 through 1994.

Jan 1, 1997
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Report

Punitive Damages in Financial Injury Jury Verdicts: Executive Summary

This report is the executive summary of an Institute for Civil Justice analysis of trends and patterns in punitive damage awards in financial injury cases in selected jurisdictions during the period 1985 through 1994.

Jan 1, 1997
Research Brief

Research Brief

Punitive Damage Awards in Financial Injury Jury Verdicts

To provide an empirical basis for the ongoing debate about punitive damages, the authors drew on the ICJ's jury verdict database to conduct the first close analysis of trends and patterns in punitive awards for financial injuries.

Jan 1, 1997
Testimony

Testimony

Punitive Damages and Financial Injury Jury Verdict

This publication contains the written statement of Stephen Carroll delivered on June 24, 1997, to the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate.

Jan 1, 1997
Dissertation

Dissertation

Explaining Variation in Personal Injury Jury Awards

Studies of civil jury verdicts have become a prominent part of the research agenda regarding the civil justice system.

Jan 1, 1997
Report

Report

Differential Treatment of Corporate Defendants by Juries: An Examination of the "Deep-Pockets" Hypothesis

Evidence that juries treat corporate defendants less favorably than individual defendants is often cited in support of the widely held view that juries are biased against wealthy "deep-pocket" defendants.

Jan 1, 1997
Research Brief

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

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

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
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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
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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
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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

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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Report

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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Report

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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