Civil Rights Complaints in U.S. District Courts, 2000

• NCJ Number: 193979
• Date Published: July 2002
• Length: 2 pages
• Publication Series: BJS Crime Data Briefs
• Agencies: BJS
• Publication Type: Statistics

Annotation

This paper presents selected findings about civil rights cases in the U.S. district courts that dealt with employment, housing, welfare, voting, or other civil rights issues between 1990 and 2000.

Abstract

Presents selected findings about civil rights cases in U.S. district courts that dealt with employment, housing, welfare, voting, or other civil rights issues between 1990 and 2000. This report does not include prisoner petitions or criminal civil rights cases prosecuted by U.S. attorneys. Information is presented on the number and types of civil rights cases filed, jurisdiction and disposition of civil rights cases, and plaintiff winners and awards.

Additional data tables through 2000 that are based on the earlier Special Report, Civil Rights Complaints in U.S. District Courts, 1990-98, are available in spreadsheets in a zip archive.