I posted my annual statistics for the October 2025 – September 2026 annual period yesterday from U.S. 5th Circuit decisions released in that period, but I left out one of the more interesting sets of statistics that I just started collecting in this last annual period: the shift in affirmance rates–and therefore in an appellant’s … More 2025-2026 annual U.S. 5th Circuit addendum: The importance of getting oral argument