Today, we’re continuing our ongoing series of posts looking at the Court’s performance over the years, one area of law at a time. This week, we’re looking at the Court’s history with civil constitutional law cases (for purposes of this analysis, we’re disregarding the constitutional law cases which arise in criminal cases).
Between 1990 and
With this post, we review the most recent data on the Court’s and individual Justice’s experience with employment law cases.
From 1990 to 2018, defendants in employment law cases who had prevailed at the Court of Appeal were slightly below .500 at the Supreme Court, winning twenty-six and losing thirty. Between 2010 and 2018, winning
Last time, we kicked off our review of the Court’s recent history with employment law cases. Today and tomorrow, we’re reviewing the data for the years 2000 to 2018.
Between 2000 and 2009, the Court decided 21 employment law cases won by plaintiffs below and 29 cases won by defendants.
Next, we review the Supreme
For the next three posts, fresh off our examination of the Court’s tort decisions, we’re going to take a close look at the cases and voting in the area of employment law.
Between 1990 and 1999, the Supreme Court decided 22 employment law cases – two in 1990 and 1992, one in 1993, three
Last week, we reported the first two thirds of the data regarding the Supreme Court’s handling of tort cases since 1990. Today, we’re looking at the data for the years 2010 to 2018.
During the most recent period, the Court has decided eighteen cases won by defendants at the Court of Appeal. The Court has
Last time, we began our in-depth review of the Court’s record in 1990 in tort cases. Today, we’re continuing that analysis.
Between 2000 and 2009, the Court’s tort docket continued to be mostly comprised of cases won by the plaintiffs below – 42 plaintiff wins, 33 defense wins. Although the two sides’ contributions were tied
Last week, we reviewed the data on how the Supreme Court has handled insurance law cases since 1990 – both what sorts of cases the Court decides, which side typically prevails, and the individual Justices’ voting records on insurance cases. This week (and next Thursday), we’ll be asking the same questions for the Court’s tort
Last time, we reviewed how the insurance industry has fared over the past twenty-nine years as a party to litigation at the California Supreme Court. This time, we’re turning to the voting records of individual Justices: irrespective of whether the insurer was plaintiff or defendant, whether the case involved coverage or liability issues, and whether
Late last week, we inaugurated a new biweekly series of posts on The Appellate Strategist analyzing the American Law Institute’s new Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance. Since this week we’re beginning a new series taking a deep dive on the Court’s docket in various important areas of law, I thought we’d begin with
Today, we’re concluding our series of posts on agreement rates among the Justices with a look at the numbers for the years 2014 through 2018.
Justice Corrigan’s closest matches were two Justices who cast only a few votes in 2014 prior to retirement: Justices Kennard and Baxter, who were both at 100%. Justice Corrigan was