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Blacks still unfairly excluded from southern juries, says new study

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

I have posted up a discussion on a new study discussing race-based jury exclusion. I’ve also briefly examined how such exclusions are (almost always unsuccessfully) challenged in North Carolina. You can find the article here. Please share your thoughts on the subject here or at examiner.com.

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Small Claims Court Getting Kind of Expensive

Monday, June 7, 2010

As part of an empirical study I’m working on concerning the impact of filing fees on small claims court filings in my State, I have generated this simple little graph. This shows how the filing fees have changed for the three levels of North Carolina trial courts over the last 30 or so years. I [...]

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