Comments on: Final Versions of Term Summary Documents

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:42:46 +0000

I don’t think Johnson v. California should be included among the 13 Ninth Circuit reversals listed on the Circuit Court Scorecard. Johnson was a case from the California Court of Appeal, not the Ninth Circuit.

G&H responds: You’re right that No. 04-6964, Johnson v. California, hails from the California Court of Appeal. However, the Circuit Scorecard is referring to another Johnson v. California: No. 03-636, in which the Ninth Circuit was reversed.

By: Picker MobBlog

Picker MobBlog — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:13:09 +0000

Closing this Mob

The experiment was to group, blog and disband, and so it is time to disband. As to the experiment, I am very interested to hear views on that, either as comments on this post or via email. What worked? What

By: an

an — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:45:39 +0000

I think you left cutter v wilkinson off as a reversal for the 6th cir in your circuit scorecard.

TG responds: right you are. We’re doing a third check on all of them. Thanks for the note.

By: New World Man - it used to be a farm

New World Man - it used to be a farm — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:02:10 +0000

Final OT 2004 Court stats

SCOTUSblog has October Term 2004 voting stats linked here. (My highly unofficial ones from April are here and here). Peas in a pod: You would never guess. Rehnquist and Kennedy “agreed in full” 77 percent of the time (out of the 69 cases Rehnquist part…

By: On the Wright

On the Wright — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:45:30 +0000

More Supreme Court Stuff

…that the fights over the makeup of the federal judiciary, and especilly the Supreme Court should there be any resignations, is of the utmost importance to conservatives. We have seen that the liberals on the bench will more times than not stick to…

By: The Volokh Conspiracy

The Volokh Conspiracy — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:10:50 +0000

October Term 2004 Statistics:

Tom Goldstein has posted several .pdfs containing statistics about the voting alignments in the recently completed Supreme Court Term. (This used to be a job for …