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Kirk Jenkins brings a wealth of experience to his appellate practice, which focuses on antitrust and constitutional law, as well as products liability, RICO, price fixing, information sharing among competitors and class certification. In addition to handling appeals, he also regularly works with trial teams to ensure that important issues are properly presented and preserved for appellate review.  Mr. Jenkins is a pioneer in the application of data analytics to appellate decision-making and writes two analytics blogs, the California Supreme Court Review and the Illinois Supreme Court Review, as well as regularly writing for various legal publications.

Justice Jenkins has cast twenty-two votes so far in civil cases – eleven to affirm and eleven to reverse.  In 2021, he cast seven votes to affirm and ten to reverse.  He has cast four votes to affirm and one to reverse in 2022 to date.

So far, Justice Jenkins has voted with the majority

Today, we begin our final six-part post reviewing the tenure of the Justices of the Supreme Court with the tenure of Justice Martin Jenkins.

Justice Jenkins has participated in twenty-five civil cases – nineteen in 2021 and six so far in 2022.

Justice Jenkins has written three opinions in civil cases – one majority opinion

In this post, we’re wrapping up our review of Justice Joshua Groban’s tenure to date on the Supreme Court.  Justice Groban has written five majority opinions in civil cases.  In 2020, he wrote one on commercial law and two in civil procedure.  In 2021, he wrote two tort decisions.

Justice Groban has written only one

Justice Groban has written five majority opinions in civil cases since joining the Court – three in 2020 and two in 2021.  One of these cases involved commercial law, two were civil procedure and two were In tort law.

Justice Groban has written only one dissent in a civil case – a case involving workers

Since joining the Court, Justice Joshua Groban has voted with the majority in 97.33% of all civil cases – 73 out of 75 cases.  He was with the majority in 96.3% of cases in 2019 and 2020, and in all 21 civil cases in 2021.

He has voted with the majority in 97.3% of all

In these next four posts, we’re completing our review of the tenure of Justice Joshua Groban.  This time, we’re reviewing Justice Groban’s voting record in civil cases.

Since taking his seat, Justice Groban has voted to affirm eighteen civil decisions – eight in 2019, three in 2020 and seven in 2021.  He has cast split

Justice Groban wrote seven opinions in civil cases from joining the Court through the end of 2021.  Five were majority opinions, one was a concurrence and one was a dissent.

Justice Groban has written ten opinions on the criminal side.  All ten were majority opinions – zero concurrences, zero dissents.

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Since joining the Court in 2019, Justice Joshua Groban has participated in seventy-five civil cases.  He sat on 27 cases in 2019, 27 more in 2020 and 21 in 2021.

Justice Groban has participated in 111 criminal cases: 35 in 2019, 42 in 2020 and 34 in 2021.

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Justice Kruger has written forty majority opinions on the criminal side of the docket.  Eighteen of them were in death penalty cases.  Six were in sentencing cases, five in constitutional law cases, three were in criminal procedure cases, two each were in habeas corpus and juvenile justice cases and one each were in cases involving