Civil Jury Cases and Verdicts in Large Counties
Author | : Carol J. DeFrances |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Actions and defenses |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Carol J. DeFrances |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Actions and defenses |
ISBN | : |
Author | : California. Superior Court (Los Angeles County). Committee on Standard Jury Instructions, Civil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Civil procedure |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Isidore Silver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Actions and defenses |
ISBN | : 9780820513096 |
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Carol J. DeFrances |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Actions and defenses |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Erik Moller |
Publisher | : RAND Corporation |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780833025364 |
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. The jurisdictions include all state trial courts of general jurisdiction in the states of California and New York; Cook County, Illinois (Chicago); the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area; and Harris County, Texas (Houston). These data are supplemented by information obtained from the Administrative Office of the Alabama Courts for verdicts reached in that state's trial courts of general jurisdiction during the period 1992 to 1997. The study also estimates what percentage of the financial injury punitive awards in the database would have been affected by caps of various sizes and how the caps would have affected the total amount of punitive damages awarded in such cases.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : American Bar Association. House of Delegates |
Publisher | : American Bar Association |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781590318737 |
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Author | : Cass R. Sunstein |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2008-12-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0226780163 |
Over the past two decades, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in the number and magnitude of punitive damages verdicts rendered by juries in civil trials. Probably the most extraordinary example is the July 2000 award of $144.8 billion in the Florida class action lawsuit brought against cigarette manufacturers. Or consider two recent verdicts against the auto manufacturer BMW in Alabama. In identical cases, argued in the same court before the same judge, one jury awarded $4 million in punitive damages, while the other awarded no punitive damages at all. In cases involving accidents, civil rights, and the environment, multimillion-dollar punitive awards have been a subject of intense controversy. But how do juries actually make decisions about punitive damages? To find out, the authors-experts in psychology, economics, and the law-present the results of controlled experiments with more than 600 mock juries involving the responses of more than 8,000 jury-eligible citizens. Although juries tended to agree in their moral judgments about the defendant's conduct, they rendered erratic and unpredictable dollar awards. The experiments also showed that instead of moderating juror verdicts, the process of jury deliberation produced a striking "severity shift" toward ever-higher awards. Jurors also tended to ignore instructions from the judges; were influenced by whatever amount the plaintiff happened to request; showed "hindsight bias," believing that what happened should have been foreseen; and penalized corporations that had based their decisions on careful cost-benefit analyses. While judges made many of the same errors, they performed better in some areas, suggesting that judges (or other specialists) may be better equipped than juries to decide punitive damages. Using a wealth of new experimental data, and offering a host of provocative findings, this book documents a wide range of systematic biases in jury behavior. It will be indispensable for anyone interested not only in punitive damages, but also jury behavior, psychology, and how people think about punishment.