‘Empirical Conjectures About the Effects of Raising the Jurisdictional Amount’

“As my Civ Pro colleagues periodically remind me, we’re likely overdue for an increase to jurisdictional thresholds. Even if they’re correct, however, what might be the expected (and unexpected) consequences of various increases to jurisdictional thresholds? A recent paper by Steven Gensler (Oklahoma) and Roger Michalski (Oklahoma), The Million Dollar Diversity Docket, puts these counter-factual questions to data. And what they find should interest more than proceduralists …” (more)

[Michael Heise, Empirical Legal Studies, 18 January]

First posted 2021-01-19 05:56:01

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