Between 2006 and 2013, the Supreme Court decided forty-five cases involving government and administrative law issues: nine in 2006, ten in 2007, five in 2008, four in 2009, four in 2010, two in 2011, four in 2012 and seven in 2013.
The caseload leaned a little bit towards cases won by the defenders of government
The Court’s docket of cases involving government entities and government/administrative law was down significantly from sixty-nine between 1990 and 1997 to forty-four from 1998 to 2005. The Court decided four cases in 1998, five in 1999, seven in 2000, five in 2001, three in 2002, six in 2003, ten in 2004 and four in 2005.
This time, we’re turning our attention to a new area of the Court’s civil docket – cases involving the conduct, authority and procedures of government agencies and officers. For our purposes in this and the three posts following, we’re defining “government” parties as anyone whose claim or defense is based upon the powers or conduct
The Court has decided only three workers compensation cases since 2013 – two in 2015 and one in 2018.
Two of the Supreme Court’s three workers compensation cases were won by defendants at the Court of Appeal.
The two defendants who had won their cases at the Court of Appeal evenly split at the Supreme
The Court decided six workers compensation cases from 2006 to 2013 – two in 2007, one each in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2013.
The Court’s light workers compensation docket consisted of four cases won by the plaintiffs below and only two involving defendants’ wins for these years.
Defendants who won Workers Compensation cases below won
Today, we’re continuing our review of the Supreme Court’s workers comp cases, turning our attention to the cases decided between 1998 and 2005.
In all, the Court decided exactly the same number of cases 1998-2005 that it had 1990-1997: fourteen. The Court decided three cases in 1998, one in 1999, two in 2000, six in
As we continue our issue-by-issue examination of the Court’s voting patterns in various areas of law, this week and next we’re addressing the Court’s workers compensation decisions.
Between 1990 and 1997, the Court decided fourteen workers compensation cases in all – one in 1990, two each in 1991 and 1992, five in 1993, none in
Today, we’re finishing our trip through the Court’s docket of civil constitutional law cases, 1990-2018.
Civil constitutional law cases have been comparatively uncommon on the Court’s docket from 2014 to 2019. The Court has heard only fifteen cases in all: one in 2014, two each in 2015 and 2016, five in 2017, three in 2018
Constitutional law cases were down sharply as a share of the Supreme Court’s civil docket between 2006 and 2013, with the Court deciding only thirty cases – five in 2006, nine in 2007, two in 2008, two in 2009, four in 2010, five in 2011, one in 2012 and two in 2013.
Although the docket
Last time, we reviewed the data for the Court’s civil constitutional law cases between 1990 and 1997. This time, we’re looking at the numbers for the years 1998 to 2005.
Constitutional law cases were slightly up for the years 1998 to 2005, with the Court deciding fifty-three civil constitutional law cases. Specifically, the Court decided