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group | bankruptcy | dismissed | implicitly settled | lost | released | relinquished | settled | unknown | victory | withdrawn | Total |
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all* | 14 | 530 | 327 | 1,875 | 17 | 42 | 1,155 | 1 | 159 | 528 | 4,648 |
disabled | 1 | 49 | 39 | 397 | 1 | 4 | 153 | 0 | 33 | 51 | 728 |
not disabled | 5 | 182 | 153 | 1,231 | 6 | 19 | 534 | 1 | 103 | 167 | 2,401 |
group | bankruptcy | dismissed | implicitly settled | lost | released | relinquished | settled | unknown | victory | withdrawn | Total |
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% all* | 0% | 11% | 7% | 40% | 0% | 1% | 25% | 0% | 3% | 11% | 100% |
% disabled | 0% | 7% | 5% | 55% | 0% | 1% | 21% | 0% | 5% | 7% | 100% |
% not disabled | 0% | 8% | 6% | 51% | 0% | 1% | 22% | 0% | 4% | 7% | 100% |
• This is slightly higher than for cases involving plaintiffs without a declared disability (4%)
Fact #2: For cases involving plaintiffs with a declared disability, 55% resulted in a loss• This is slightly higher than for cases involving plaintiffs without a declared disability (51%)
Fact #3: For cases involving plaintiffs with a declared disability, 21% resulted in an explicit settlement• This is slightly lower than for cases involving plaintiffs without a declared disability (22%)
Takeaway #1: Disability status has a small/negligible/non-existent impact on the outcome of a case. In other words, litigants-with-a-disability face the same fates as litigants-without-a-disability.