Marika F.X. Litras, Ph.D.
January 16, 2000 NCJ 173427
Presents findings about civil rights cases in U.S. district courts that dealt with employment, housing, welfare, voting, or other civil rights issues between 1990 and 1998. (This report does not include prisoner petitions or criminal civil rights cases prosecuted by U.S. attorneys.) Information is presented on trends in types of civil rights cases filed, the basis of Federal court jurisdiction, disposition of civil rights cases, type of trial and trial outcomes, monetary award amounts, and case processing time. Data show that civil rights complaints more than doubled between 1990 and 1998, due primarily to growth in employment-related cases between private parties.
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Part of the Civil Rights Complaints in U.S. District Courts Series
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