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Caseflow Management and Delay Reduction in Urban Trial Courts of the United States, 1979, 1983-1985

(27 datasets; 11,139 KB)

Principal Investigator(s): Mahoney, Barry

Summary: The purpose of this study was to examine caseflow management in order to reduce delays in urban trial courts. The data contain information from court records that reached disposition in a cross-section of urban general-jurisdiction trial courts during 1979, 1983, 1984, and 1985. The 1979 data files contain the baseline data for this survey. Data were gathered on civil and criminal case processing times across a broad range of courts, and changes in case processing times over a period of y... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09918.v1

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