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06-27-2002, 01:41 PM
9th Circuit just following form (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/nation/1472566)
Experts quick to predict pledge ruling will be overturned
By DAVID G. SAVAGE
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -- The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the last bastion of old-fashioned liberal activism in the federal system, a place where judges are not afraid to push the margins of the law.
Its judges declared that dying patients have a right to doctor-assisted suicide, and they repeatedly have stood in the way of state officials trying to carry out the death penalty.
Wednesday's ruling striking down the Pledge of Allegiance may be seen by many as further evidence that the 9th Circuit represents the "Left Coast."
No regional court has its decisions reversed as often as the 9th Circuit. In 1997, the high court took up 29 cases from the 9th Circuit and reversed 28 of them. And in nearly two-thirds of those cases, the reversal came on a unanimous vote.
This year has been better. The justices have reversed 12 of 16 rulings by the 9th Circuit.
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Click here to read more (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/nation/1472566)
Experts quick to predict pledge ruling will be overturned
By DAVID G. SAVAGE
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -- The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the last bastion of old-fashioned liberal activism in the federal system, a place where judges are not afraid to push the margins of the law.
Its judges declared that dying patients have a right to doctor-assisted suicide, and they repeatedly have stood in the way of state officials trying to carry out the death penalty.
Wednesday's ruling striking down the Pledge of Allegiance may be seen by many as further evidence that the 9th Circuit represents the "Left Coast."
No regional court has its decisions reversed as often as the 9th Circuit. In 1997, the high court took up 29 cases from the 9th Circuit and reversed 28 of them. And in nearly two-thirds of those cases, the reversal came on a unanimous vote.
This year has been better. The justices have reversed 12 of 16 rulings by the 9th Circuit.
...
Click here to read more (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/nation/1472566)