Metadata record for Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base Appellate and Civil Pending Data, 2011

Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base Appellate and Civil Pending Data, 2011 Federal Judicial Center Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2013-02-12 29281 doi://10.3886/ICPSR29281.v2

The purpose of this data collection is to provide an official public record of the business of the federal courts. The data originate from district and appellate court offices throughout the United States. Information was obtained at two points in the life of appellate and civil cases: filing and termination. The termination data (archived as separate data collections each year) contain information on both filing and terminations, while the pending data (archived as this data collection and updated annually) contain only filing information on the most recent pending cases. The unit of analysis for the appellate and civil pending data is the case.

UniverseScheme29281 Federal Court Cases: Integrated Database Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00072. ICPSR.XVII.E NACJD.IV administration appellate courts case dismissal case processing civil law court cases criminal law defendants disposition (legal) federal courts judicial decisions legal systems pretrial procedures records trial courts trial procedures United States 2011 2011 Appellate pending data -- case. Civil pending data without PLT and DEF -- case. Civil pending data with PLT and DEF -- case. administrative records data event/transaction data All federal pending court cases in the United States in 2011. computerized court records, administrative records 2011 2011

ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Created variable labels and/or value labels.
Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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The data are restricted from general dissemination. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement form and specify the reasons for the request. A copy of the Restricted Data Use Agreement form can be requested by calling 800-999-0960. Researchers can also download this form as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file from the download page associated with this dataset. Completed forms should be returned to: Director, National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research, P.O. Box 1248, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, or by fax: 734-647-8200.

AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public.

The original collector of the data, ICPSR, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ netmail@icpsr.umich.edu 2013-02-12 ICPSR 2013-02-12 The collection was updated to reflect 2011 pending data. 2012-01-12 ICPSR 2012-01-12 2012-01-11 The data collection was revised to include appellate and civil cases pending as of the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010. Previous data was replaced with these data. StudyUnit29281

Starting with the year 2001, each year of data for Federal Court Cases Integrated Data Base is released by ICPSR as a separate study number. Data for the years 1970-2000 can be found in FEDERAL COURT CASES: INTEGRATED DATA BASE, 1970-2000 (ICPSR 8429).

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Starting with year 2008, the appellate pending and civil pending data are archived as a separate data collection.