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Federal civil-service annuitants and social security, December 1975.

This article examines personal and work-related characteristics of a sample of the nearly 1 million Federal civil-service retirees who were receiving annuities based on their own wage records as of December 31, 1975. Employment patterns and subsequent annuities in civil-service careers have been related to corresponding experience in jobs covered under the old-age, survivors, disability, and he...

The Federal Rules of Civil Settlement

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were originally based upon a straightforward model of adjudication: Resolve the merits of cases at trial and use pretrial procedures to facilitate accurate trial outcomes. Though appealing in principle, this model has little relevance today. As is now well known, the endpoint around which the Federal Rules were structured—trial—virtually never occurs. Today,...

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...

Silver Linings in Federal Civil Justice Reform

Federal civil service adult survivor annuitants and Social Security, December 1975.

This article reviews the recent experience of adult survivor annuitants under the Federal civil service retirement program. Data are presented for such persons in terms of their status in December 1975 as primary beneficiaries, secondary beneficiaries, or nonbeneficiaries under the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program. Analysis reveals that 63 percent of the survivor ann...