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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. Rubia Morales-Alfaro v. USA 23-55200 · 2025-06-03 · civil · affirmed
  5. Ussec v. Chicago Title Company 22-56206 · 2025-02-20 · civil · affirmed
  6. Marlon Blacher v. Ralph Diaz 22-55818 · 2024-12-20 · civil · affirmed
  7. United States v. Akbar 23-671 · 2024-08-22 · civil · reversed
  8. United States v. Ramon Palacios 22-50263 · 2024-07-10 · civil · affirmed
  9. Thinn v. Johnson 3:22-cv-00002 · 2024-04-19 · civil · writ denied
  10. Knopping v. United States 3:22-cv-01132 · 2024-04-12 · civil
  11. Freitag v. Valeiras 3:21-cv-01625 · 2024-03-29 · civil
  12. Morales-Alfaro v. CoreCivic, Inc. 3:20-cv-00082 · 2024-03-12 · civil
  13. The Estate of Elisa Serna v. County of San Diego 3:20-cv-02096 · 2024-03-05 · civil
  14. Richard Vangieson v. Lloyd Austin 22-55998 · 2024-02-26 · civil · affirmed
  15. Martinez v. United States 3:23-cv-00207 · 2024-02-20 · civil
  16. Thogmartin v. Zurich American Insurance Co. 3:23-cv-01309 · 2024-02-16 · civil
  17. United States v. Cruz Cazarez-Carillo 22-50026 · 2024-02-07 · civil · affirmed
  18. Humberto Miranda v. Raymond Madden 22-55299 · 2024-02-06 · civil · affirmed
  19. Latham v. Pollard 3:20-cv-02177 · 2024-02-02 · civil
  20. Water Island Event-Driven Fund v. MaxLinear, Inc. 3:23-cv-01607 · 2023-12-20 · civil
  21. FTC v. Triangle Media Corporation 22-56012 · 2023-12-12 · civil · affirmed
  22. 3D Systems, Inc. v. Wynne 3:21-cv-01141 · 2023-10-24 · civil
  23. Herrera v. National Vision, Inc. 3:23-cv-01350 · 2023-09-11 · civil
  24. Charles Allen v. Ralph Diaz 22-55712 · 2023-08-22 · civil · affirmed
  25. Ritz Fuente, LLC v. SHS Armin Schafer Jr. 3:21-cv-01986 · 2023-08-17 · civil