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Larry Alan Burns
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Larry Alan Burns

District judge · Superior Court of Southern District of California County · 2000–2026

Judge, District Court, S.D. California 2003–

D+
99% — 337.5 of 342 orders sound, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 66% 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.

320cases reviewed on appeal
383opinions authored
400panels sat on (not as author)
23%reversed, in whole or part, of 283 merits decisions

Outcomes on appeal

affirmed 217 vacated 33 reversed in part 21 reversed 12 remanded 8 dismissed 6

The Ninth Circuit's later rulings on their dockets

affirmed 23

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

criminal 238 civil 81 probate 1

By year: 2018 39 · 2020 36 · 2019 36 · 2021 28 · 2023 26 · 2017 24 · 2010 23 · 2016 19 · 2024 16 · 2022 16 · 2011 14 · 2025 8 · 2015 7 · 2007 7 · 2009 6 · 2006 5 · 2012 3 · 2014 2 · 2013 2 · 2008 2 · 2026 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. United States v. Cuadrado 24-2937 · 2026-01-12 · civil · affirmed
  2. United States v. Ramirez 24-1872 · 2025-10-10 · civil · affirmed
  3. United States v. Luis Caceres 23-55491 · 2025-08-21 · civil · affirmed
  4. United States v. Plancarte 24-327 · 2025-08-18 · criminal · dismissed
  5. Rubia Morales-Alfaro v. USA 23-55200 · 2025-06-03 · civil · affirmed
  6. United States v. Plancarte 24-327 · 2025-05-08 · criminal · dismissed
  7. Ussec v. Chicago Title Company 23-55252 · 2025-04-28 · probate · affirmed
  8. United States v. Encines-Montoya 24-691 · 2025-03-18 · criminal · affirmed
  9. Ussec v. Chicago Title Company 22-56206 · 2025-02-20 · civil · affirmed
  10. Marlon Blacher v. Ralph Diaz 22-55818 · 2024-12-20 · civil · affirmed
  11. United States v. Juan Gamez-Salas 21-50278 · 2024-12-05 · criminal · affirmed
  12. United States v. Reymundo Arredondo 22-50132 · 2024-10-15 · criminal
  13. United States v. Adam Phipps 21-50168 · 2024-09-12 · criminal · affirmed
  14. United States v. Felipe Gonzalez-Alvarez 22-50049 · 2024-09-11 · criminal · affirmed
  15. United States v. Akbar 23-671 · 2024-08-22 · civil · reversed
  16. United States v. Pich 23-1619 · 2024-08-22 · criminal · affirmed
  17. United States v. Gurrola 24-4 · 2024-08-15 · criminal · affirmed
  18. United States v. Ramon Palacios 22-50263 · 2024-07-10 · civil · affirmed
  19. United States v. Aguirre-Garcia 23-337 · 2024-05-29 · criminal · affirmed
  20. Jane Doe v. Rob Bonta 23-55133 · 2024-05-08 · criminal
  21. Thinn v. Johnson 3:22-cv-00002 · 2024-04-19 · civil · writ denied
  22. Knopping v. United States 3:22-cv-01132 · 2024-04-12 · civil
  23. Freitag v. Valeiras 3:21-cv-01625 · 2024-03-29 · civil
  24. Morales-Alfaro v. CoreCivic, Inc. 3:20-cv-00082 · 2024-03-12 · civil
  25. The Estate of Elisa Serna v. County of San Diego 3:20-cv-02096 · 2024-03-05 · civil