So we’ve determined that a dissent at the Appellate Court is only a moderate indication that reversal is statistically more likely at the Supreme Court in civil cases. So what about criminal cases?
Between 2010 and 2020, 64% of criminal cases with a dissent below were reversed at the Supreme Court. The reversal rate for
For the past two weeks, we’ve been continuing our review of the data on dissents at the Appellate Court, asking whether a dissent below indicates that a reversal at the Supreme Court is more likely. This time, we’re reviewing the data on civil cases for the years 2010 through 2020.
Across the entire period, once
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Please find below our summaries of the civil decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal for the week of August 23, 2021.
There were three substantive civil decisions this week. Vu v. Canada (Attorney General) deals with discoverability and
The Iowa Supreme Court will hear arguments in a criminal appeal when it makes its first post-Covid trip outside the Judicial Branch Building for an oral argument in Oskaloosa on Sept. 23. A key issue in the case is whether a passenger in the vehicle operated by a ride-hailing service such as Lyft or Uber
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Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of August 16, 2021.
In Advanced Farm Technologies-JA v. Yung Soon Farm Inc, the appellant was sued under simplified procedure for failure to
Last March, Pat blogged on a case pending before the Supreme Court of North Carolina in which invocation of the Rule of Necessity was a distinct possibility. Pat’s post has proved prescient as the Court on Wednesday, August 18, 2021, issued an Order invoking that Rule. The Court will now address the case. Watch this
Once again, a dissent at the Appellate Court was a strong indicator that the Supreme Court was more likely to reverse in criminal cases between 2000 and 2009. For the ten year period, 68.69% of cases with a dissenter below were reversed by the Supreme Court, while only 46.36% of cases decided unanimously at the
Just as was true in the 1990s, the presence of a dissenter at the Appellate Court was a mild-to-moderate indicator between 2000 and 2009 that a reversal was more likely in a civil case. Across the ten years, 61.4% of cases with a dissenter at the Appellate Court were reversed by the Supreme Court, while
The Law Court recently issued a decision in Caiazzo v. Secretary of State that was interesting on several levels. (Full disclosure: this blogger represented the petitioner in the appeal). One procedural aspect of the decision is particularly interesting, as it will affect the timing of future challenges to the Secretary of State’s determination regarding the
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