Ninth Circuit goes 1-15 at Supreme Court
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... The 9th Circuit went 1-15, adding to a string of losing records to the high court, according to SCOTUSblog.
Its only decision left standing was a unanimous Supreme Court affirmation that some of the NCAA's player compensation regulations violated anti-trust laws.
But, as many Democrats in Congress consistently note, the 9th Circuit did not see the highest reversal rate this year. Given the volume of cases it sends to the Supreme Court each year, it rarely does. The most-reversed circuits are often much smaller courts, usually sending one or two cases to the high court.
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In one case, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the court's interpretation of one immigration statute was "incompatible" with what it actually said. In another, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote its judgment "cannot be reconciled" with actual immigration rules.
But, Gorsuch wrote, "The Ninth Circuit has long applied a special rule in immigration disputes."
The circuits that saw a 100% reversal rate — the 1st, 4th, 6th, 7th, 10th, D.C., Federal, and Armed Forces circuits — did not send more than five cases to the high court. The 9th sent 16, in addition to a series of so-called shadow docket cases in which the court ruled against it.
The Supreme Court's shutdown of the 9th Circuit comes in the wake of dashed Republican hopes that former President Donald Trump would swing it in a more conservative direction. Trump appointed 10 judges to the court during his term, dramatically reducing the conservative-to-liberal ratio, an 11-seat lead on the 29-judge court, to a margin of three.
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The reversal rate can be somewhat misleading because the Supreme Court usually does not take cases where it agrees with the lower court. What sets the Ninth Circuit apart is that the Supreme Court majority actually disagreed with more of its decisions than any other court.
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