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Originally Posted by timmgirvan

So far....Sotomayor is 1 for 6 with Supreme Court! That's really dealing from a position of strength,huh?

the 9th district court where i live has a 94% reversal rate.

the average for all district courts combined is 76%.

"Most analysts dismiss statistics on reversal as of little significance, given the small number of cases reviewed from most circuits. The 6th and 8th circuits, which together cover 11 states from Tennessee to the Dakotas, saw 100% of their cases reversed this term. The 11-state region accounted for only nine cases on the high court's 83-case docket."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...,6543288.story

you misunderstand the roll of the supreme court if you think a high reversal rate is somehow indicative of error by a district court. it's usually a case where:

a)precedent isn't well established and they want to weigh in to give direction, or

b) they want to reverse direction given in a prior supreme court ruling.

the pool you're measuring from is the cases they've agreed to hear.

guess what? they don't bother hearing cases on well established legal principals. why would they?

that's why all district courts, including the 2nd, get reversed more often than not on the limited number of cases the supreme court agrees to hear.