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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"trial courts"”.
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Essays on the law and economics of public institutions
… I study a procedural reform in the U.S. federal trial courts. Re-cent court reform efforts in the U.S. and elsewhere have focused on speeding up what are perceived to be slow and burdensome civil justice systems.
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A Jurisdictional Analysis of Franklin Proceedings: A Preliminary Study
… In 2016, the California Supreme Court directed trial courts to start conducting Franklin Hearings for the purpose of allowing sentenced youthful offenders to make a record of youth-related factors relevant to their eventual parole determination. This preliminary study looks at how different …
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The Philadelphia Experiment in Civil Case Management - Journey from Disaster to Model Court
In a 1995 study of the 45 largest urban state trial courts in the country, Philadelphia's state trial court was ranked as the 2nd worst jurisdiction for the length of time it took a case to get concluded. Philadelphia's Court leaders undertook to transform the culture of the court by implementing …
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Constitutional origins of the federal judiciary.
… the independence, extent, and power of federal courts. Congress first furnished the federal judiciary with the institutional means to extend its jurisdiction by increasing the number of federal trial courts and establishing a full set of intermediate appellate courts in 1891 to handle the bulk …
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Case Study of the Structures of Criminal and Drug Courts
… and organizations working in criminal and drug courts. Specifically, the dissertation examines the structure (as defined by the interactions and relationships of players) of a criminal court and a drug court operating under a state trial court system in the United States. Recent reforms to trial …
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Care beyond justice: The conflicted ethics of drug treatment courts
… fieldwork at three metropolitan drug treatment courts in the United States. Drug treatment courts are specialized courts within the criminal justice system that offer eligible defendants a chance at treatment instead of incarceration. Unlike previous studies of drug courts, I approach drug court …