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Today, we conclude our review of the areas of law which the California Supreme Court draws its civil and criminal dockets from with a look at the Court’s criminal docket over the past three years.

In 2013, automatic death penalty appeals accounted for 35.29% of the criminal docket.  As always, the next most frequent area

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For the past several weeks, we’ve been reviewing the areas of law from which the California Supreme Court has drawn its civil and criminal docket in the years since 2000.  Today and tomorrow, we’ll address the criminal docket in the years 2010 through 2015.

In Table 74 below, we report the breakdown for the Supreme

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Today, we wrap up our analysis of the areas of law which have comprised the California Supreme Court’s civil docket over the past sixteen years, focusing on the civil docket for the years 2013 through 2015.

Government and administrative law jumped to the top spot in the civil docket for 2013, accounting for 18.92% of

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For the past several weeks, we’ve been reviewing the areas of law which the California Supreme Court has drawn its civil and criminal dockets from during the years 2000 to 2015.  This week, we address the civil docket between 2010 and 2015.

For 2010, employment was far in front of every other area, contributing nine

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Today, we continue our analysis of the areas of law covered by the California Supreme Court in its civil and criminal dockets by addressing the criminal dockets during the years 2008 and 2009.

In 2008, the Court decided 26 automatic death penalty appeals, but with the criminal side of the docket slightly busier, the death

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For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing the areas of law covered by the California Supreme Court’s civil and criminal dockets, year by year, beginning in 2000.  Today and tomorrow, we address the criminal docket between 2005 and 2009.

Death penalty appeals were up sharply in 2005.  The Court decided 25 automatic death penalty

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Yesterday, we addressed the areas of law comprising the California Supreme Court’s criminal docket between 2000 and 2002.  Today, we turn to the final two years of this initial five-year period – 2003 and 2004.

Death penalty decisions were up sharply in 2003.  The Court decided 19 death penalty appeals in 2003, accounting for 30.65%

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Last week, we began a close look at the areas of law decided by the California Supreme Court in its civil and criminal dockets.  We began by addressing the civil docket for the years 2000 through 2004.  Today, we turn to the criminal docket for the same years.

In 2000, the Court decided fifteen death