ARTICLE: HOW JUDGES VIEW CIVIL JURIESPaula L. HannafordB. Michael DannG. Thomas Munsterman
Their criminal cases concern federal offenses, and their civil cases deal with matters of federal law or disputes between citizens of different states (remember subject matter jurisdiction). They’re also the only federal courts where grand juries indict the accused and juries decide the cases. ...
Lawsuits are filed every day. In fact, according to an article on the Citizens for a Sound Economy Web site, there are more than 15 million civil cases processed annually in state courts alone, at a cost of over $1.8 billion. Although the number of product liability cases in 2000 was le...
By April 9, all but the youngest of the group had been sentenced to death by all-white juries. The case moved to the Alabama Supreme Court in 1932, which upheld the previous convictions. Then, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case, ruling that the defendants' rights had not been ...
the exciting challenges of my job, one day I looked up and thought: I don’t know many 60-year lawyers who are happy. As creative as it was to weave complicated stories for often adverse juries, there was something jostling me about the dearth of creativity in the career I’d selected...
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Why Should We Care How Judges View Civil JuriesNancy J. King