As Rome used to say "If you're not cheating, you're not trying".How so? Can you read and comprehend the data on a chart? 192 reversals vs 78 reversals for the next highest numbers of reversals, means the 9th is far and away the most reversed. That was the point, although I did throw in the actual rate.
SCOTUS case reversal rates (2007 - Present)
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Rolo may get money after all
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My only point is that WSU is going to be in the news from this issue over the next few years as both sides seem determined to take this to the Supreme Court.
All publicity is good publicity, right?
All publicity is good publicity, right?
Why would you be looking at raw numbers vs percentages (while then only mentioning a percentage)?How so? Can you read and comprehend the data on a chart? 192 reversals vs 78 reversals for the next highest numbers of reversals, means the 9th is far and away the most reversed. That was the point, although I did throw in the actual rate.
SCOTUS case reversal rates (2007 - Present)
Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics
But okay, I guess. So youve identified that the biggest circuit with more judges and more cases than the other circuits also has the most cases that go to SCOTUS. Shocking stuff.
And i guess you dont mention the equally meaningless fact that 9th circuit also has far and away the most affirmed cases looking at raw numbers.
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192 reversals compared to 78 is not a rate, it’s just a number. 192 reversals out of 242 cases gives a reversal rate of 79%. 78 reversals out of 106 cases gives a reversal rate of 73.6%.How so? Can you read and comprehend the data on a chart? 192 reversals vs 78 reversals for the next highest numbers of reversals, means the 9th is far and away the most reversed. That was the point, although I did throw in the actual rate.
SCOTUS case reversal rates (2007 - Present)
Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics
The sixth circuit has 71 reversals in 88 cases, a rate of 80.7%. That’s the highest of the circuit courts (and the ballotopedia site shows that in a chart, right before it actually states it outright).
If you want to compare the pure numbers of cases heard and reversed, you also need to consider the circuit’s case load. The ninth is huge, and hears more appeals and issues more decisions than any other - roughly 11,000 per year compared to around 3,000. With 3.67x the caseload, you could reasonably expect that 3.67x as many cases from the ninth would go to SCOTUS, If my math is right, the other circuits average about 66 cases reviewed (ranging from 37 for the first to 106 by the fifth) compared to 242 from the ninth. And it just happens that 66 x 3.67 equals exactly 242.
So…while the number of cases from the ninth that are reversed exceeds the other districts, that’s simply a matter of scale (scale also dictates that the ninth has more cases affirmed than any other circuit, and - by a wide margin - more cases that aren’t even accepted by SCOTUS and allowed to stand). The number of their cases accepted and reviewed exactly matches what would be expected based on caseload. Their reversal rate is at the high end, but isn’t the highest.
WTF are all these numbers? I'm the resident Accountant around here. Although I guess that's Math, which I did not excel in after HS. So you get a pass.
At any rate, if Rolo was struggling to get a real job before, he pretty much sealed his own coffin by pursuing this. Who is going to touch him now?
Rolo has a job at Cal. So Cal touched him. Figuratively, not literally. The DOJ is pursuing this, not Rolo.
Rolo may stand to benefit financially but its not like he called up Pam Bondi and said "Hey, I can score $20 Million here - help a brother out".
Bigger game at play here.
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