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Judges and Judiciary

Jul. 4, 2006

Ninth Takes Its Lumps From Supreme Court

WASHINGTON - The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had another rocky year at the U.S. Supreme Court, as the justices reversed the nation's largest and most liberal circuit 83 percent of the time, with the overwhelming majority of those reversals coming in unanimous high court decisions.

By Brent Kendall
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      WASHINGTON - The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had another rocky year at the U.S. Supreme Court, as the justices reversed the nation's largest and most liberal circuit 83 percent of the time, with the overwhelming majority of those reversals coming in unanimous high court decisions.
      After an unusual 2004-05 ...

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