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Old 03-30-2005, 04:43 PM
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Default Re: Ideal System...Schiavo as an illustration

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It is not an accident that the 9th Circuit gets overruled by he Supreme Court all the time - they don't follow the precedents and insist on making decisions based on their own personal beliefs.

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This is misleading. Yes the 9th Circuit is the most overturned of the circuits. But the number of times even it is reversed is miniscule. In 2002 (the year I could most easily find data for on the internet), the 9th Circuit decided about 5100 cases. The Supreme Court reversed it 24 times. Do you think that means the Supreme Court reverses the 9th Circuit "all the time"? I don't.

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Courts "find" new rights and "hidden" provisions in long standing laws all the time, much more than can be explained from fuzzily worded laws.

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Nonsense, particularly with reference to "all the time". You need to stop believing what you hear from those who love to bash the judicial system. It's all exaggeration. And if you stop to think about it, you'd realize that it's ridiculous.
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