Defense of the 9th Circuit
In In Defense Of The 9th Circuit: Why The Federal Appeals Court From The Left Coast Doesn't Deserve Its Bad Rap, Slate.com gives some interesting statistics about the Ninth – including the fact that, despite is 90% reversal rating from the recent Supreme Court term, it was not the most reversed circuit.
Justice Stevens also defended the Ninth while speaking at the Ninth Circuit's judicial conference in Honolulu last week, called the reversal rate “misleading.” Justice Stevens noted that for several of the reversed cases, other circuits had ruling similarly to the Ninth.
