9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
U.S. Supreme Court
Sep. 3, 2016
We don't need the 9th Circuit to retry criminal cases
The U.S. Supreme Court ended its recent term by filing five reversals of the 9th Circuit. Added to other 9th Circuit cases reversed by the Supreme Court earlier in the term, this number has led all federal appellate court reversal records for the last decade.
Lawrence Waddington
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Email: waddington1@aol.com
Lawrence is a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge and former assistant attorney general for the state of California. He is author of "Disorder in the Court" at Amazon.com. He also edits the 9th Circuit blog, "The 9th Circuit Watch."
The U.S. Supreme Court ended its recent term by filing five reversals of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the last two weeks of July. Added to other 9th Circuit cases reversed by the Supreme Court earlier in the term, this number has led all federal appellate court reversal records for the last decade as evidenced by the 19 reversals cited in Deck v. Jenkins, 814 F.3d 954 (9th Cir. 2016).
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