As somebody who has been involved in civil actions in Federal Court, I can assure you that it deserves zero confidence and is basically pay-to-win. (Unless two billion-dollar-plus corporations are involved.) This is largely, but not only, on account of discovery taking years and costing unbounded sums of money, plus monetary penalties for not complying with expensive discovery.
I would second this. I would add that the federal court system is far ahead of the state courts, in that the federal trial courts at least put out reasonably well-written decisions on hearings, whereas the county courts generally just hand-wave everything in emotional verbal rulings.
