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Janis L. Sammartino
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Janis L. Sammartino

Judge · Superior Court of San Diego County · 2003–2026

Judge, District Court, S.D. California 2007– · Presiding Justice, Superior Court of California, County of San Diego 2006–2007

F--
provisional — 0% — 0 of 2 rulings upheld, per qwen3.8-27b; would rank in the top 100% of 312 graded judges, but ten rulings are needed for a standing letter — 2 so far

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.

112cases reviewed on appeal
1,061opinions authored
1,083panels sat on (not as author)
19%reversed, in whole or part, of 101 merits decisions

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

By year: 2010 15 · 2020 13 · 2018 13 · 2021 10 · 2011 10 · 2024 8 · 2025 7 · 2019 7 · 2026 6 · 2017 6 · 2016 6 · 2022 5 · 2023 2 · 2014 1 · 2013 1 · 2012 1 · 2003 1 ·

Analysis

2 of this judge's reviewed cases have an analysis; counts are shown from 10.

Cases reviewed on appeal (every role)

  1. Sylvester Owino v. Corecivic, Inc. 21-55221 · 2022-06-03 · civil · affirmed
  2. United States v. Michael Van Niekerk 21-50161 · 2022-04-21 · criminal · affirmed
  3. American Claims Management v. Allied World Surplus Lines 20-56055 · 2022-03-30 · civil · reversed in part
  4. Daniel Acedo v. County of San Diego 20-55844 · 2021-11-19 · civil · affirmed
  5. United States v. Marco Duenas-Garcia 20-50346 · 2021-11-15 · criminal · affirmed
  6. Kuity Corporation v. Leslie Gladstone 20-56120 · 2021-10-26 · civil · affirmed
  7. The Geo Group, Inc. v. Gavin Newsom 20-56172 · 2021-10-05 · criminal · reversed
  8. Robert Jurado v. Ron Davis 18-99009 · 2021-09-10 · criminal · affirmed
  9. The Eclipse Group LLP v. Target Corporation 20-55206 · 2021-08-20 · civil · affirmed
  10. United States v. James Brown 19-50250 · 2021-05-12 · criminal · reversed
  11. Ruben Garcia, Jr. v. K. Seeley 19-56128 · 2021-05-04 · civil · affirmed
  12. United States v. Abel Godoy 19-50376 · 2021-02-23 · criminal · affirmed
  13. United States v. Raul Saenz 18-56659 · 2021-01-19 · criminal · affirmed
  14. Public Watchdogs v. Southern California Edison Co. 19-56531 · 2020-12-29 · civil
  15. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. v. Comicmix LLC 19-55348 · 2020-12-18 · civil · remanded
  16. Steven Lucore, Sr. v. Michael Zeff 18-56050 · 2020-11-18 · civil · affirmed
  17. Steven Lucore, Sr. v. U.S. Bank, N.A. 19-55315 · 2020-11-18 · civil · affirmed
  18. Charles Collins v. Nancy Wolf 18-56249 · 2020-11-03 · probate · affirmed
  19. Melchor Limpin v. United States 19-55369 · 2020-10-30 · civil · affirmed
  20. Sheila Garcia v. County of San Diego 19-55022 · 2020-10-26 · civil · reversed in part
  21. Charles Griffin, II v. Racquel Zurbano 19-55598 · 2020-07-23 · civil · affirmed
  22. Karim Khoja v. Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. 16-56069 · 2020-05-19 · civil · reversed in part
  23. United States v. Gilbert Carrasco 18-50417 · 2020-05-13 · criminal · affirmed
  24. Zubin Khavarian v. Andrew Saul 17-56351 · 2020-05-06 · civil · affirmed
  25. Chassidy Nesmith v. County of San Diego 19-55457 · 2020-04-13 · civil · affirmed