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    • Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base, 2001

    Metadata Updated: November 28, 2023

    The purpose of this data collection is to provide an official public record of the business of the federal courts. The data originate from 94 district and 12 appellate court offices throughout the United States. Information was obtained at two points in the life of a case: filing and termination. The termination data contain information on both filing and terminations, while the pending data contain only filing information. For the appellate and civil data, the unit of analysis is a single case. The unit of analysis for the criminal data is a single defendant.

    Access & Use Information

    Restricted: This dataset can only be accessed or used under certain conditions. License: us-pd

    Collection

    This dataset is part of the following collection:

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date November 28, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOJ JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date November 28, 2023
    Publisher Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Maintainer
    Identifier 2492
    Data First Published 2002-05-21T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 2015-09-24T14:09:04
    Rights These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.
    Public Access Level restricted public
    Bureau Code 011:21
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Collection Package Id a04ba074-7fce-4957-ad6e-25953b29e259
    Harvest Object Id 08ebad8d-278e-4599-8541-e340d10a7aa8
    Harvest Source Id 3290e90a-116f-42fc-86ac-e65521ef3b68
    Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Program Code 011:061
    Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash abe8ab027c6cd0ec52051934d26fa950bd5a2c37209f8b929e97d9982798e89a
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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