Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base, 2006 (ICPSR 4685)
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Federal Judicial Center
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04685.v4
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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 a case: filing and termination. The termination data contain information on both filing and terminations, while the pending data contain only filing information.
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Access to these BJS-sponsored data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete an application through the Standard Application Process (SAP) Portal. The application requires users to provide information about their research team and project, explain why the requested data are essential to the research, and describe how the data will be used. Applicants are also required to complete and submit a NACJD Restricted Data Use Agreement and a BJS Privacy Certificate, and provide IRB review documentation.
Restricted Data Use Agreements available on the NACJD website are provided for reference only. Apply for access to BJS restricted-use data through the SAP Portal, where you will complete the application and submit all required documentation. If the application is approved, these data may be accessed from a requester secure site via ICPSR's secure download procedures.
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Starting with the year 2001, each year of data for Federal Court Cases is released by ICPSR as a separate study number. Federal Court Cases data for the years 1970-2000 can be found in FEDERAL COURT CASES: INTEGRATED DATA BASE, 1970-2000 (ICPSR 8429).
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All federal court cases in the United States in 2006.
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administrative records
computerized court records
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2007-03-15
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2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
- Federal Judicial Center. Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base, 2006. ICPSR04685-v4. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-08-26. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04685.v4
2015-08-26 Six data files were created with docket numbers blanked for Parts 1, 3, and 5, and with docket numbers containing original values for Parts 2, 4, and 6.
2013-01-11 BJS and the AOUSC requested that the DOCKET (Docket Number) variables be replaced with 9-fill.
2011-11-11 All parts are being moved to restricted access and will be available only using the restricted access procedures.
2007-10-09 Parts 3 and 4 have been added.
2007-03-15 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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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.