
Today, we’re beginning a new multi-part series of posts, looking at the reversal rates for each District and Division of the Appellate Court by the area of law involved in the case. First up: the First District Appellate Court in the 1990s. There was only one environmental law and one election law case, and each was reversed. Three areas had a 75% reversal rate: domestic relations, property law and commercial law. The reversal rate for tort law was 65.7%. In civil procedure, it was 65.6%, and for government and administrative law cases, just a bit lower still – 65%. The
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