Civil Litigation Efficiency: Criteria and Indicators

Rule 11 and Civil Rights Litigation

Constructs of Justice: Beyond Civil Litigation

Computer-Based Discovery in Federal Civil Litigation

the pervasive use of computers. More and more cases involve e-mail, word-processed documents, spreadsheets, and records of Internet activity. In some cases, computerbased discovery can be routine and uneventful. The parties may agree simply to exchange computer disks of documents instead of paper. In many cases, however, computerbased discovery generates disputes over the scope of disclosure, f...

Civil Litigation in Twentieth Century Europe

Introduction Choosing a starting point and an end for a historiography of the civil procedural laws of twentieth century Europe from the perspective of case management is as simple as choosing these moments in the Europe of the nineteenth century. In the nineteenth century the historiography should commence with the French Code de procédure civile, that was adopted in 1806. It was this code, wi...

Civil commitment in the psychiatric emergency room. II. Mental disorder indicators and three dangerousness criteria.

Proponents of return to a "need for treatment" standard for civil commitment contend that the current dangerousness standard forces psychiatrists to neglect severely ill patients in favor of those who are less ill but dangerous to others. Among 198 psychiatric emergency patients in five facilities, those rated as most dangerous on Three Ratings of Involuntary Admissibility, a reliable index of ...