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Anthony J. Battaglia
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Anthony J. Battaglia

District judge · Superior Court of Southern District of California County · 1996–2026

Judge, District Court, S.D. California 2011–

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99% — 648.5 of 653 orders sound, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 50% 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.

111cases reviewed on appeal
714opinions authored
714panels sat on (not as author)
20%reversed, in whole or part, of 95 merits decisions

Outcomes on appeal

affirmed 76 reversed 8 vacated 7 reversed in part 4 remanded 2 dismissed 2

The Ninth Circuit's later rulings on their dockets

affirmed 22 reversed 2 vacated 1 reversed in part 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 71 criminal 37 other 2 probate 1

By year: 2024 16 · 2021 16 · 2020 13 · 2019 12 · 2018 11 · 2023 10 · 2022 9 · 2017 7 · 2025 5 · 2026 4 · 2016 3 · 2015 2 · 2014 1 · 2012 1 · 1996 1 ·

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. Lessin v. Ford Motor Company 25-2211 · 2026-02-11 · civil · reversed in part
  2. United States v. Alvaro Dominguez 18-50360 · 2020-06-01 · criminal · reversed in part
  3. San Diego Comic Convention v. Dan Farr Productions 18-56221 · 2020-04-20 · civil · reversed in part
  4. United States v. William Walsh, IV 18-50160 · 2019-11-21 · criminal · reversed in part