Yesterday, we began reviewing the areas of law in which government entities have pursued civil appeals since 1994. Today, we’re addressing the years 2000 through 2005.
Like our previous period, constitutional law and government and administrative law cases dominated the docket of cases appealed by government entities. Government entities appealed eighteen constitutional law cases, a
For the past two weeks, we’ve been considering how the Court’s civil and criminal cases were distributed among the Districts and Divisions of the Court of Appeal. This week, we consider the same issue we began at the Illinois Supreme Court Review earlier in the week – which areas of law did government entities pursue
Yesterday, we reviewed the year-by-year data on the State’s appearances as appellant and respondent in criminal cases from 1994 to 2016. Today, we review the State’s winning percentage in each role.
The State won 80.95% of its cases as petition in 1994, 93.75% in 1995, 64.29% in 1996 and 88.89% in 1997. The State won
Last week, we reviewed how often public entities appeared as appellant and respondent in civil cases, and how often the public entities prevailed. This week, we review the Court’s experience in criminal cases.
The Court decided twenty-one criminal cases in 1994 where the State was the appellant. The Court heard sixteen such cases in 1995,
Last week, we began our review of the Court’s experience with governmental entities. This week, we’re evaluating governmental entities’ winning percentage.
Petitioners won 85.71% of their cases in 1994, 59.09% in 1995 and 100% in 1996. Petitioners won 85.71% in 1997, 64.29% in 1998, 57.14% in 1999 and 71.43% in 2000.
In 2001, petitioners won
For the past several weeks, we’ve looked at the Court’s record with death penalty appeals. This week and next, we’re looking at the Court’s record with parties that are governmental entities.
In Table 308, we report the year-by-year data for governmental entity petitioners, beginning in 1994. The numbers have varied widely. The Court decided seven
Last time, we looked at public entities’ winning percentage in civil cases at the California Supreme Court between 1994 and 2005. Today, we look at the second half of our study period – how did public entities fare between 2006 and 2016?
Public entities have done even better during these years than they had in
Last week, we looked at how defendants have fared in criminal cases. Of course, in a sense that amounts to asking how prosecutors are doing. So this week, we ask the flip side of that question – how have public entities fared in civil cases between 1994 and 2016?
In Table 225, we report the