You got that.
It is called the ninth Circus for a reason in the west.
More of their rulings have been overturned than any other.
I think at this point, more 9th-circuit rulings are overturned than the rest combined.
Known as the “Ninth Circus” by my nephew-lawyer here in the east too.....
That’s actually not correct. You see it all over, it has simply become a trusim in our society that the Ninth Circuit is crazy and the proof for that is that it is reversed so frequently. Interestingly, however, no statistics support that “proof.”
In the 2009 cases decided thus far by the Supreme Court the Ninth Circuit has been reversed 80% of the time. The Seventh Circuit was also reversed in 80% of its cases, and four circuits have been reversed in 100% of their cases. http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Preliminary-Stats-OT09_042910-7.pdf
In 2008, the Ninth Circuit was reversed 91% of the time. That’s a lot no question, but 8 circuits were reversed 100% of the time. http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/circuit.pdf
In 2007, the Ninth Circuit was reversed 80% of the time, but so was the Fifth Circuit, and the Tenth Circuit was reversed in all of its cases. http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/scorecard07.pdf
In 2006, the Ninth Circuit was reversed 86% of the time, while the Third and Fifth Circuits were reversed 100% of the time. http://www.scotusblog.com/archives/ScorecardOT06.pdf
I could keep doing this for every year, but you should get the idea. The fact is that most cases are reversed by the Supreme Court - it generally averages over 75% per year for all cases from all circuits, and the Ninth Circuit is almost never the most frequently reversed circuit in the country. It is true that in many years the Ninth Circuit has more cases reversed than other circuit by number, although at a lower rate than other circuits, but that’s because the Ninth Circuit is so large. Considering it hears approximately 3x more appeals than the average other circuit, the really surprising thing is that more cases from the Ninth Circuit aren’t reversed compared to other circuits. http://www.slate.com/id/2170477/
There are many extremist judges on the Ninth Circuit, on both the liberal and conservative side, and you can complain about the Ninth Circuit for many legitimate reasons, but it simply isn’t accurate to say the Ninth Circuit is reversed more frequently than all the others.