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Civil Justice Statistics
URL: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/civil.htm

Description:
Collection of U.S. government publications with statistics about civil court cases in state and federal courts. Includes information about federal tort trials and verdicts, punitive damage awards, contract trials, intellectual property theft, medical malpractice lawsuits, and civil rights cases. Dates of publications vary, but most are from the mid-1990s to the present. From the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Publisher:
U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics

Extra Keywords
suing litigation

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Civil procedure -- United States
Judicial statistics -- United States
Trials -- United States

LII Database Information:
Record 19648 created by Jennifer English on 11/07/2005
Last modification on 11/08/2005
Published: 11/10/2005  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/19648