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Kohler-Hausmann, Issa. "Distributive Justice & Corrective Justice: The Effect of County-Level Racial and Income Inequality on Tort Trial Outcomes" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug 10, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p103847_index.html>

Kohler-Hausmann, I. , 2006-08-10 "Distributive Justice & Corrective Justice: The Effect of County-Level Racial and Income Inequality on Tort Trial Outcomes" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p103847_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper asks the empirical question whether aggregate-level poverty and racial composition affect tort tail outcomes. It is motivated by theoretical debates about the normative theory underlying tort law, corrective justice, which holds that considerations exterior to the duties and losses of the parties to the accident, such as distributive concerns, are inappropriate to the determination of liability or damages. This paper asks do social conditions of income inequality in a geographic area have a significant and consistent effect on the outcomes of jury adjudicated tort cases? In America poverty has a racial and ethnic dimension: African-Americans and Hispanics are disproportionately in poverty which has implications for social understandings and effects of poverty. Therefore I will also consider whether minority population or poverty rates have a unique effect apart from overall poverty. This paper employs logit and OLS models to estimate the effect of county poverty and minority population rates on the likelihood of plaintiff successes, and on the level of expected damages. I find that although poverty has a consistently positive effect on both likelihood of plaintiff successes and damages, it accounts for little of the general county fixed effects.

The Legal Model and Daubert’s Effect on Trial Judges’ Decisions to Admit Scientific Expert Testimony

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