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Preliminary Judgments

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Divorce: Entry of Final Decree Nunc Pro Tunc after Remarriage of a Party: Cal. Civ. Code § 133
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CT of the Abdomen
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seeing—and refusing to see—privilege
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The Federal Judge as a Case Manager: The New Role in Guiding a Case from Filing to Disposition
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An Old Judicial Role for a New Litigation Era
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no DOI — not checkedThe Myth of Notice Pleading
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no DOI — not checkedIn Haines, the trial court made the necessary assessments but "expressed them in such an intemperate way that no litigant who was the target of them could feel that anything approaching a fair trial was coming
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no DOI — not checkedTechnology's Impact: The Quest for a New Paradigm for Accountability in Mediation
no DOI — not checkedEach day in the field, many mediators do engage in what might be termed evaluative behavior, and evaluative-style mediators
no DOI — not checkeddiscussing evolution of pretrial conference into important venue for settling disputes)
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no DOI — not checkedAn example is the Agent Orange case, in which the trial judge forcefully expressed his belief during settlement negotiations that plaintiffs could not make out their case for liability. See Peter Shuck
no DOI — not checkedS]ome judges employ an evaluative approach to mediation
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no DOI — not checkedAlthough a litigant certainly is free to refuse to settle on terms he or she knows to be unfair, a litigant asked by a judge to settle a case has strong incentives to agree to a settlement and thereby avoid trying the case --or proceeding with discovery
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no DOI — not checkedCivil Trial Reform and the Appearance of Fairness
no DOI — not checkedpresenting empirical evidence suggesting that people are not as satisfied with resolutions achieved through settlement conferences as when the case is
no DOI — not checkedWould parties make use of the preliminary judgment procedure? The evidence suggests that they would. Parties in litigation provide clear indications that they desire reliable information about case value. The popularity of summary judgment is one indication, but there are others: early neutral evaluations, 188 focus groups and mock trials, 189 summary jury trials, 190 and jury consultants all provide information about case value. 191 Preliminary judgments would simply offer another means, potentially more effective and less expensive, for obtaining information that could materially assist the parties in settlement negotiations. Preliminary judgments are no panacea for problems in American litigation
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no DOI — not checkedProfiling the Profilers: A Study of the Trial Consulting Profession, its Impact on Trial Justice & What, if Anything, to do About it
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