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GAO Study Shows Federal Court Plaintiffs Only Win 35% Of The Time!

On Behalf of | Sep 16, 2018 | Civil Procedure

In law school you are taught “if you are a defendant remove the case to the Federal Court”.  University of Connecticut law professors Alexandra Lahav and Peter Siegelman studied 30 years of data from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts supporting that directive. According to the law profs, the winning rate for plaintiffs in civil litigation in federal courts declined drastically and steadily between 1985 and 1995, from about 70 percent to 30 percent.SSRN-id2993423

P.S.  Federal Court Buildings are also so much nicer (for the most part) and the lawyers dress better!

Lahav, Alexandra D. and Siegelman, Peter, The Curious Incident of the Falling Win Rate (July 7, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2993423 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2993423

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