The Wall Street Journal Law Blog discusses the alarming decline of civil jury trials in federal courts, "Why Have Federal Civil Jury Trials Basically Disappeared?" In 1962, 11.5% of federal civil cases went to trial, in 1982 6.1% and in 2009 1.2%.
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