Civil cases usually involve private disputes between persons or organizations and generally involves cases wherein one party sues another party in order to recover a right, obtain damages for an injury, obtain an injunction to prevent an injury, or obtain a declaration of judgment to prevent future legal disputes are found in the civil records.
Civil cases usually involve private property rights, not criminal activity.
Court costs and other additional expenses of
civil cases usually must be paid by the client.
Not exact matches
The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (
usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «
civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this
case, between government and individual schools).
DRM is
usually discussed in the context of copyright and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, which makes circumvention of measures that control access to copyrighted works a
civil offense (in some
cases even a federal crime).
In
civil cases, defendants can apply for a public defender but
usually they are turned down.
(That is not
usually the
case for general
civil litigation.)
I find that in criminal
cases my shopping list is often much shorter than in
civil cases, as I am
usually provided with much of what I need at the start.
Civil and criminal jury pools are different in the sense that criminal cases have 50 juror pools while civil is usually no more than 30
Civil and criminal jury pools are different in the sense that criminal
cases have 50 juror pools while
civil is usually no more than 30
civil is
usually no more than 30 - 36.
In
civil court
cases, the main focus of the plaintiff is
usually some specific remedy like receiving money from the defendant, or the receipt of a court order.
So in most
civil litigation, you're
usually dealing with companies, and you're dealing with the employees of those companies, although that's not always the
case necessarily either.
Usually, in
civil cases, the Plaintiff has the onus of proving that the Defendant was negligent.