How Often Do Governmental Entities Win Their Civil Appeals (Part 4)?

For the past two weeks, we’ve been reviewing the government’s winning percentage as appellant in civil appeals at the California Supreme Court, year by year and by area of law.  Today, we complete our survey, looking at the years 2013 through 2016.

Government appeals were not only a bit less common during these years than in the data we reviewed yesterday for the years 2006 through 2012 – the government’s winning percentage was down a bit.  In 2013, the Court decided only two civil cases in which a governmental entity was the appellant, and the government lost them both – one in government and administrative law and one in tax law.