This time, we’re concluding the first step in our review of the Districts’ reversal rates, one area of civil law at a time, for the 1990s. Overall, the reversal rate was 100% in wills and estates law and property law.
Commission Confirms Appointments to Courts of Appeal Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, chair of the Commission on Judicial Appointments, announced the commission today confirmed two nominations to the California Courts of Appeal in Los Angeles and San Diego. The nominees
LACBA’a Bench Meets the Bar Luncheon today at noon will feature 2/3’s PJ Lee Edmon.UC Davis’s Unity Bar Summit “Access to Justice” program on May 21 will feature Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye and Justice Martin Jenkins and Judicial Appointments Secretary Luis
Today, we’re beginning a new multi-part series of posts, looking at the reversal rates for each District and Division of the Appellate Court by the area of law involved in the case. First up: the First District Appellate Court in
This time, we’re concluding our examination of the reversal rates of the Courts of Appeal in civil cases during the 1990s. Overall, reversal rates were 100% with respect to property law, contract law and arbitration. Government and administrative law and
This time, we’re reviewing reversal rates during the 1990s for the seven then-active divisions of the Second District (Division Eight wasn’t created until later).
Overall, 100% of decisions were reversed in environmental law, contract law and secured transactions. The reversal
Today we’re beginning a new series of posts. We’re returning to the subject of reversal rates but looking at the data from a slightly different point of view. This time, we’re considering reversal rates by the area of law addressed
Corpus linguistics has been in the news lately, which gives us a chance to discuss this interesting tool of statutory interpretation and, in the process, revisit some Sixth Circuit views about it.
What is corpus linguistics? We will let Circuit
