At 11:49 pm on April 2, 2013, online magazine Gawker posted a video on their website of a violent mugging that occurred in a Brooklyn subway station on March 9, 2013. The video, released by police earlier that day, showed a woman in a stairwell being attacked and robbed. Viewers of the video watch in helpless horror as […]
Author: Jon R.
The Origins and Implications of Summary Jury Trials in Personal Injury Cases
In the early 1980s, District Judge Thomas D. Lambros devised the Summary Jury Trial (SJT) as a form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) for cases pending in the Northern District of Ohio. It was essentially a practice trial lasting no more than one day, and heard before a jury of six chosen via voir dire […]