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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Do you have anything to back that claim up?
Some stats I could find (didn't spend much time)
2002 term:
9th circuit cases to the US Supreme court: 30% of court's total cases; 30% of the overturned cases --- exactly what you would expect.
The overall reversal rate was lower in the 9th Circuit than the 4th, 5th, 8th and 10th circuits.
I haven't found in my cursory look any broader statistics that look at more than 1 term...it would be interesting to see.
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