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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. Plancarte 24-327 · 2025-08-18 · criminal · dismissed
  2. United States v. Plancarte 24-327 · 2025-05-08 · criminal · dismissed
  3. United States v. Encines-Montoya 24-691 · 2025-03-18 · criminal · affirmed
  4. United States v. Juan Gamez-Salas 21-50278 · 2024-12-05 · criminal · affirmed
  5. United States v. Reymundo Arredondo 22-50132 · 2024-10-15 · criminal
  6. United States v. Adam Phipps 21-50168 · 2024-09-12 · criminal · affirmed
  7. United States v. Felipe Gonzalez-Alvarez 22-50049 · 2024-09-11 · criminal · affirmed
  8. United States v. Pich 23-1619 · 2024-08-22 · criminal · affirmed
  9. United States v. Gurrola 24-4 · 2024-08-15 · criminal · affirmed
  10. United States v. Aguirre-Garcia 23-337 · 2024-05-29 · criminal · affirmed
  11. Jane Doe v. Rob Bonta 23-55133 · 2024-05-08 · criminal
  12. United States v. Jose Gambino-Ruiz 21-50303 · 2024-01-24 · criminal
  13. United States v. Perry Davis 22-50058 · 2024-01-22 · criminal
  14. United States v. Nathaniel Mitchell 22-50097 · 2023-12-06 · criminal · affirmed
  15. United States v. Juan Cabrera 21-50259 · 2023-09-29 · criminal
  16. United States v. Cynthia Montoya 21-50129 · 2023-09-13 · criminal · remanded
  17. United States v. Urbano Torres-Giles 22-50112 · 2023-08-31 · criminal · affirmed
  18. United States v. Manuel Vasquez-Perez 22-50032 · 2023-07-27 · criminal · reversed
  19. United States v. Cesar Paz-Negrete 19-50172 · 2023-07-05 · criminal · affirmed
  20. United States v. Armando Orozco-Barron 21-50298 · 2023-07-03 · criminal · affirmed
  21. United States v. Jahvaris Springfield 22-50031 · 2023-06-29 · criminal · affirmed
  22. United States v. Adrianna Rivas 22-50021 · 2023-05-30 · criminal · dismissed
  23. United States v. Armando Orozco-Barron 21-50298 · 2023-05-22 · criminal · affirmed
  24. United States v. Armando Orozco-Barron 21-50298 · 2023-05-22 · criminal · affirmed
  25. United States v. Michael Mac Cleary 21-50240 · 2023-04-25 · criminal · affirmed