Bloomberg Law
December 22, 2016, 8:45 PM UTC

Federal Appeals Court Reversal Rates Show Disparities

Melissa Heelan Stanzione
Analysis Channel Analyst

By Melissa Heelan Stanzione, Bloomberg BNA

The chances of winning a reversal in federal appeals court in 2015 were 8.6 percent, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

The data was featured on the AO’s “Just the Facts” website Dec. 20, a new feature that consolidates data from the Judiciary Data and Analysis Office, an AO employee told Bloomberg BNA.

A circuit-by-circuit breakdown of the reversal rates for 2015 is available elsewhere from the AO, and shows that the Seventh Circuit leads with 18.3 percent. The Tenth Circuit has the lowest reversal rate: 4.7 percent.

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