Today, we’re examining the Chief Justice’s voting record in civil cases.
Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye took her seat on January 3, 2011. Since that time, she has voted in 312 civil cases. Consistent with the slight uptick in the Court’s production in civil cases in the second half of the Chief Justice’s tenure, she cast 139
This week, we’re beginning a more detailed examination of the individual Justices’ voting records. We start with Justice Corrigan’s record in civil cases.
With the retirement of Justice Chin, Justice Corrigan is now the senior Associate Justice on the Court. Since joining the Court in 2006, she has voted in 535 civil cases. Although the
Today, we’re dissecting the reversal rate in criminal cases from Division 1 of the Second District. The following areas of law were the biggest players on the criminal docket in terms of cases which went to the Supreme Court: constitutional law (23.53%); criminal procedure (20.59%); sentencing (14.71%); and violent crimes (11.76%).
The overall reversal rate
The last couple of weeks, we’ve looked at reversal rates for the Court of Appeal in cases at the Supreme Court. But the difficulty which few people talk about is that reversal rates are nearly always a composite statistic – either “all cases,” or at most all civil cases or all criminal. But mathematically, a
Last time, we reviewed reversal rates in criminal cases from the Divisions of Los Angeles’ Second District. Today, we’re looking at the rest of the state – San Francisco’s First District, Divisions One through Five, the Third District, District Four, Divisions One, Two and Three, and the Fifth and Sixth Districts.
Division 2 of the
Last week, we reviewed reversal rates for the Court of Appeal in civil cases. This week, we’re looking at the criminal side of the docket. First up – the Divisions of the Second District.
Division One has fared the worst since 1990, with a reversal rate in criminal cases of 73.53%. Division Six was close
Long-time readers may have noticed that a few things have changed around here in recent days. And that brings us to our two exciting announcements.
First, I’ve moved my practice to the San Francisco office of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP.
I’ve known and respected Arnold & Porter for its brilliant lawyers and its
This time, we’re reviewing the reversal rates in civil cases from 1990 to 2020 for the areas of California outside of Los Angeles’ Second District – the First District (San Francisco) and the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Districts.
Division 4 of the First District had the worst reversal rate in this group – 74.07%.
This week, we’re beginning a detailed look at the reversal rates, District by District and Division by Division, for the Court of Appeal in the Supreme Court. First up, reversal rates for Los Angeles’ Second District.
Between 1990 and 2020, Division Four of the Second District had the highest reversal rate at 68.18%. Division One
This time, we’re comparing the lag time from grant to decision in criminal cases to the ultimate case result. In order not to bias the data, we begin by eliminating the death penalty and habeas corpus cases, where the determinants of lag time are quite different than non-death criminal cases.
Once again, there is a