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Assessing Access-To-Justice Outreach Strategies, Jj Prescott Jan 2018

Assessing Access-To-Justice Outreach Strategies, Jj Prescott

Law & Economics Working Papers

The need for prospective beneficiaries to “take up” new programs is a common stumbling block for otherwise well-designed legal and policy innovations. I examine the take-up problem in the context of publicly provided court services and test the effectiveness of various outreach strategies that announce a newly available online court access platform. I study individuals with minor arrest warrants whose distrust of courts may dampen any take-up response. I partnered with a court to quasi-randomly assign outreach approaches to a cohort of individuals and find that outreach improves take-up, that the type of outreach matters, and that online platform access …


Standing Still In The Roberts Court (Panel), Jonathan H. Adler Jan 2009

Standing Still In The Roberts Court (Panel), Jonathan H. Adler

Faculty Publications

This Article, prepared for the Case Western Reserve Law Review symposium on “Access to the Courts in the Roberts Era,” offers a preliminary look at the standing jurisprudence of the Roberts Court. Contrary to claims made by some Court commentators, the Roberts Court has not tightened the requirements for Article III standing. To the contrary, insofar as the Roberts Court has altered the law of standing, it has made it easier for at least some litigants to pursue their claims in federal court. The Court’s decisions denying standing have largely reaffirmed prior holdings. By comparison, some of the Court’s decisions …


Laidlaw: Redressing The Law Of Redressability, Harold J. Krent Feb 2001

Laidlaw: Redressing The Law Of Redressability, Harold J. Krent

All Faculty Scholarship

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