What's half a lung worth? Civil jurors' accounts of their award decision making

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 401-419

  Mott, Nicole L ^a   Hans, Valerie P ^a   Simpson, Lindsay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COURT; DECISION MAKING; DESTRUCTION; HUMAN; INJURY; LEGAL LIABILITY; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; JUDGMENT; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALE; MALPRACTICE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0033853472     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005540229224     Document Type: Article

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