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FY 2023 Access to Justice Design and Testing Program

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks a vendor to support research and testing activities related to development of a new data collection that will measure access to justice for civil legal needs. As the Department's principal federal statistical agency, BJS is responsible for the collection, analysis, publication, and dissemination of statistics on crime, criminal offenders...

Civil Jury Cases and Verdicts in Large Counties: Civil Justice Survey of State Courts, 1992 

CIVIL JURIES AWARD PUNITIVE DAMAGES IN 6 PERCENT OF SUCCESSFUL SUITS

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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         BJS
SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1995                              
202-307-0784

CIVIL JURIES AWARD PUNITIVE DAMAGES
IN 6 PERCENT OF SUCCESSFUL SUITS

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A 12-month study shows
that only 2 percent of some 762,000 state court
civil cases decided in the nation's 75 most
populous counties...

Tort Cases in Large Counties: Civil Justice Survey of State Courts, 1992 

THREE OUT OF FOUR TORT CASES SETTLED OUT OF COURT

U.S. Department of Justice

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THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1995                            202-307-0784

THREE OUT OF FOUR TORT CASES SETTLED OUT OF COURT

     WASHINGTON, D.C.--Three out of four tort cases filed in the
nation's 75 most populous counties never reached the courtroom because
they were settled out of court, according to...