“Within this 50% affirmance rate, which is itself surprising to most people, you have individual cases that depart from the pattern one has come to expect in Ninth Circuit cases in the Supreme Court,” said professor Arthur Hellman. “[But] I think it may be simply happenstance.”
July 19, 2024 at 04:58 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit—with its liberal reputation—was reversed in six of 12 cases that the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed this term, or just 50% of the time.
For the Ninth Circuit, it’s an unusually low percentage. In recent past years, the largest federal appeals court’s reversal rate has typically fluctuated between 70% and 90%.
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