Sentences with phrase «default affirmance»
It turns out that the issue may not be all that significant, according to this recent detailed analysis from Scotus Blog, which found that the number of cases in which a tie vote caused by recusal results in default affirmance of the lower court is relatively small.
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The default position is to affirm, and it is easy for an ineffective presentation to mask decent appeal points so that a case gets tossed into the «probable affirmance» pile early on.