
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)
- Picart v. Pollard
- Jacome v. IRS of California
- Innovative Sports Management, Inc. v. Javier Rodriguez
- Sepulveda v. Galindo
- Scally v. Velasquez
- Lampley v. McCurry
- Airborne America, Inc. v. Kenway Composites
- Gross v. Stufflebean
- Cordova v. BAE Systems, Inc.
- (HC) Rodriguez v. Fisher
- De Souza v. Dawson Technical, Inc.
- Hicks v. Shakiba
- Mercedes-Benz Group AG v. A-Z Wheels LLC
- Jacome v. IRS of California
- NeSmith v. County of San Diego
- Orthopaedic Hospital v. DJO Global, Inc.
- Allen v. Diaz
- Gastelum v. HEES II
- Gilbert v. California Department of CDCR
- Nguyen v. BMW of North America, LLC.
- Jacome v. IRS of California
- Ireland v. Solaris Enterprise, LLC
- Martinez v. The People of the State of California
- Garcia v. Seven Seas Associates, LLC
- Blackshire v. Buca Restaurants 2, Inc.