
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
- Arrant v. Zambrano
- Lemke v. Jander
- Airborne America, Inc. v. Kenway Composites
- Dr. Mickey Socrates Ferdynand v. Disney Enterprises
- United States v. Abel Godoy
- Davall v. Cordero
- Ukkerd v. Siegel
- Johnson v. Paul
- Fenton v. Kirk
- Archi's Acres, Inc. v. Whole Foods Market California, Inc.
- Goldstein v. General Motors LLC
- Martin v. Mitchell
- Lopez v. Smiths Detection, Inc.
- Carroll v. Diaz
- Johnson v. Saul
- Columbia Sportswear North America, Inc. v. Ventex Co., Ltd.
- Dr. Mickey Socrates Ferdynand v. Disney Enterprises
- Fu v. Yang
- United States v. Raul Saenz
- Taylor v. United States
- Langer v. YM Holdings, LLC
- Abbas Hossenini v. DHS ICE
- Owino v. CoreCivic, Inc.
- Hall v. Marriott International, Inc.
- Lee v. United States