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Civil Rights Cases Filed in U.S. District Courts Declined by Nearly 20 Percent from 2003 to 2006
September 21st, 2008
The number of civil rights cases filed in U.S. district courts declined from 40,516 to 32,865 (nearly 20 percent) between 2003 and 2006, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced. Civil rights claims may involve allegations of discrimination in areas such as employment, housing, welfare benefits or voting rights based on an individual's or group's race, sex, religion, age or physical condition. Civil rights filings doubled in U.S. district courts from 1990 (18,922 filings) to 1997 (43,278 filings) and subsequently stabilized until 2003 when they declined. The growth, stabilization and decline in civil rights filings were largely attributable...
Source: Pharma Investments, Ventures & Law Weekly (2008-09-21)
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