Yale Professor John Langbein: "Good Riddance" to Civil Trials

The percentage of civil cases that goes to trial has shrunk drastically since the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were reformed in 1938, John Langbein writes in a recent article. But he argues that the disappearance of trials is a good thing, because the pre-trial procedures that replaced them are better at investigating facts and adjudicating outcomes.

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