
Janis L. Sammartino
Judge, District Court, S.D. California 2007– · Presiding Justice, Superior Court of California, County of San Diego 2006–2007
On the assumption that the model is right — qwen3.8-27b reads the court's own disposition right 70% of the time, 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.
Outcomes on appeal
affirmed 82 reversed 10 reversed in part 7 remanded 4 vacated 2 dismissed 1
The Ninth Circuit's later rulings on their dockets
affirmed 18 reversed in part 1 reversed 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 56 criminal 51 probate 5
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Analysis
2 of this judge's reviewed cases have an analysis; counts are shown from 10.
Cases authored (every role)
- Jennifer Burnley v. Midland Credit Management Inc
- Azenta, Inc. v. Andrews
- McNeil v. San Diego Sheriffs
- Charman v. Core Digital Marketing LLC
- Dougan v. Centerplate, Inc.
- Kennedy v. El Centro Regional Medical Center
- Douglas v. Hill
- Ramirez v. Pratt
- Salmen v. Terronez
- Ritchie v. Hill
- Shields v. Dollar Tree, Inc.
- Motaz v. Larose
- Kinnee v. TEI Biosciences Inc.
- Shields v. Dollar Tree, Inc.
- Blackgold v. Madison
- Neill v. YMCA of San Diego
- Scottsdale Insurance Company v. Hamerslag
- Pitts v. Unknown
- McCoy v. DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.
- Scheibe v. Fit Foods Distribution Inc.
- Fischer v. Kelly Services Global, LLC
- Flagstar Bank, N.A. v. Santiago
- Urmancheev v. United States
- A.G. v. United States of America
- Johnson v. Kijakazi