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Andrew G. Schopler

District judge · Superior Court of Southern District of California County · 2019–2026

, District Court, S.D. California 2016–

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99% — 482.5 of 486 orders sound, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 52% of 51 graded judges

On the assumption that the model is right — qwen3.8-27b's verdicts on a court's own orders matched a later appeal 76% of the time (104 of 136), graded on a curve: A is the top fifth of the judges graded under this model, F the bottom fifth; ++ / + / − / −− within the band. How the grade is made.

14cases reviewed on appeal
508opinions authored
508panels sat on (not as author)
8%reversed, in whole or part, of 13 merits decisions

Outcomes on appeal

affirmed 12 vacated 1 dismissed 1

The Ninth Circuit's later rulings on their dockets

affirmed 10 remanded 1 dismissed 1

Each Ninth Circuit opinion that names a docket this judge wrote an order on, by its outcome; the ruling it reviewed is not always the order in the record. The order's page links the opinion.

Areas

civil 11 criminal 3

By year: 2025 12 · 2026 2 ·

Analysis

No analyses yet. When they exist, this shows counts of the model's findings across this judge's reviewed cases — with the court's own dispositions beside them, and only from 10 cases.

Cases

  1. Shallowhorn v. Lopez 24-2484 · 2026-05-28 · criminal · affirmed
  2. United States v. Najera 24-4544 · 2025-12-09 · civil · affirmed
  3. Benitez v. Phelan 24-1311 · 2025-11-18 · civil · affirmed
  4. Beck v. State of California 24-1520 · 2025-10-10 · civil · affirmed
  5. Beck v. Catanzarite Law Corporation 24-1727 · 2025-10-09 · civil · affirmed
  6. Cash v. Simmons 23-3325 · 2025-06-27 · civil · affirmed
  7. Rosales v. Roman Catholic Bishop of San Diego 24-3754 · 2025-06-20 · civil · affirmed
  8. Vashisht-Rota v. Harrisburg University 24-7589 · 2025-05-28 · civil · affirmed
  9. Vashisht-Rota v. Reyes 24-7171 · 2025-05-28 · civil · affirmed
  10. Vashisht-Rota v. Ottawa University 24-5962 · 2025-05-27 · civil · affirmed
  11. United States v. Ortiz 24-4885 · 2025-03-21 · criminal · affirmed
  12. Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Bluechip Services 23-55740 · 2025-01-28 · civil · affirmed