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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. Vashisht-Rota v. Harrisburg University 24-7589 · 2025-05-28 · civil · affirmed
  2. Vashisht-Rota v. Ottawa University 24-7815 · 2025-05-28 · civil · dismissed
  3. Vashisht-Rota v. Reyes 24-7171 · 2025-05-28 · civil · affirmed
  4. Vashisht-Rota v. Ottawa University 24-5962 · 2025-05-27 · civil · affirmed
  5. Woodway USA, Inc. v. LifeCORE Fitness, LLC 3:24-cv-01936 · 2025-05-23 · civil
  6. Williams v. Allison 3:24-cv-01382 · 2025-05-21 · civil
  7. Stewart v. Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories, Inc. 3:19-cv-02043 · 2025-05-21 · civil
  8. Aragon v. DZR Group Inc. 3:25-cv-00264 · 2025-05-20 · civil
  9. Thomas v. Hill 3:24-cv-01528 · 2025-05-20 · civil
  10. Ewing v. Gitre 3:24-cv-01213 · 2025-05-16 · civil
  11. Ellman v. County of San Diego 3:24-cv-02132 · 2025-05-15 · civil
  12. Hodroff v. JPMorgan Chase & Co. 3:25-cv-00041 · 2025-05-12 · civil
  13. Bo v. Board of Regents of the University of California 3:24-cv-02212 · 2025-05-09 · civil
  14. Cowan v. San Diego County 3:25-cv-00342 · 2025-05-08 · civil
  15. Stevens v. CDCR Director 3:25-cv-00191 · 2025-05-08 · civil
  16. Green v. Kijakazi 3:21-cv-02098 · 2025-05-06 · civil
  17. Smith v. TransUnion 3:24-cv-01727 · 2025-05-01 · civil
  18. Yeargan v. Kijakazi 3:21-cv-00814 · 2025-05-01 · civil
  19. Reel v. Commissioner of Social Security 3:25-cv-00781 · 2025-04-29 · civil
  20. Kakowski v. SGT Gonzales 3:24-cv-01314 · 2025-04-14 · civil
  21. Aragon v. DZR Group Inc. 3:25-cv-00264 · 2025-04-10 · civil
  22. PPNP LLC v. Arya 3:25-cv-00790 · 2025-04-08 · civil
  23. Sosa v. Bird 3:22-cv-01022 · 2025-04-02 · civil
  24. Camargo Alejo v. Vista Detention Facility 3:25-cv-00258 · 2025-04-01 · civil
  25. Bonilla v. San Diego County Court Clerk's Office 3:24-cv-02374 · 2025-04-01 · civil