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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 authored (every role)

  1. Watson v. City of Santee 3:23-cv-01913 · 2023-12-14 · civil
  2. Holt v. Simmons 3:23-cv-01618 · 2023-11-29 · civil
  3. Brockman v. County of San Diego 3:22-cv-00512 · 2023-11-08 · civil
  4. Rademaker v. Ganzekaufer 3:21-cv-01757 · 2023-10-20 · civil
  5. Rademaker v. Ganzekaufer 3:21-cv-01757 · 2023-10-20 · civil
  6. Benitez v. Carlos Del Toro 3:23-cv-01242 · 2023-10-10 · civil
  7. Krause-Pettai v. Unilever United States, Inc. 3:20-cv-01672 · 2023-09-30 · civil
  8. Melendrez v. All Kids Academy 3:22-cv-01725 · 2023-09-25 · civil
  9. Vashisht-Rota v. Ottawa University 3:20-cv-00959 · 2023-09-22 · civil
  10. Glenon v. Abbott Laboratories 3:22-cv-02061 · 2023-09-18 · civil
  11. Yablonsky v. California Department of Correction & Rehabilitation 3:18-cv-01122 · 2023-09-18 · civil
  12. Justin S. Beck v. State of California 3:23-cv-00164 · 2023-09-14 · civil
  13. Sanchez Valle v. Barron 3:23-cv-01446 · 2023-09-14 · civil
  14. Beck v. Superior Court of California, County of Orange 3:23-cv-00882 · 2023-09-13 · civil
  15. Cash v. Simmons 3:22-cv-02065 · 2023-09-13 · civil
  16. Herlickman v. Saul 3:19-cv-02446 · 2023-09-13 · civil
  17. Nunez v. Ford Motor Company 3:22-cv-00625 · 2023-09-12 · civil
  18. Residential Energy Services Network, Inc. v. Building Science Institute, Ltd. Co. 3:22-cv-01641 · 2023-09-08 · civil
  19. family Witzeman v. State of California 3:22-cv-01433 · 2023-09-08 · civil
  20. Holt v. Simmons 3:23-cv-01618 · 2023-09-07 · civil
  21. Hearn v. Warden 3:22-cv-00255 · 2023-09-06 · civil
  22. Arnold v. County of San Diego Corporation 3:23-cv-01396 · 2023-09-06 · civil
  23. Vashisht-Rota v. Utah Attorney General 3:22-cv-00978 · 2023-09-06 · civil
  24. In Re: Silva 3:22-cv-01959 · 2023-09-05 · civil
  25. Paris v. Pollard 3:22-cv-00565 · 2023-08-29 · civil