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Forecasting the Forecasters: Upcoming Trends in Judicial Analytics

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There was no effective way to perform practical legal research on state trial court records. Brazile of the Los Angeles County Superior Court favors plaintiffs in labor and employment disputes and defendants in property disputes, granting 43% of demurrers for the former and 85% for the latter.

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Bruce’s Beach: A Case Study for Judicial Analytics Best Practices

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If we look at things at a more granular level, we learn that Beckloff and Chalfant both grant demurrers at a rate on par with the county average (42%), favoring those filed by the defendant at a rate of 83%. Strobel , on the other hand, has granted 77% of the demurrers filed in her court, 90 percent of which were in favor of the defendant.