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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. Blacher v. Diaz 3:20-cv-01270 · 2021-03-22 · civil
  2. Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. v. U.S. Specialty Insurance Company 3:19-cv-01667 · 2021-03-19 · civil
  3. Carreno v. 360 Painting, LLC. 3:19-cv-02239 · 2021-03-19 · civil
  4. United States v. Tomas Peraza Jr. 20-50198 · 2021-03-19 · criminal · affirmed
  5. Morales-Alfaro v. CoreCivic, Inc. 3:20-cv-00082 · 2021-03-17 · civil
  6. Taylor v. Eclipse Senior Living, Inc. 3:20-cv-00190 · 2021-03-15 · civil
  7. Beck v. Camp Pendleton and Quantico Housing LLC 3:20-cv-00579 · 2021-03-12 · civil
  8. Thomas v. Costco Wholesale Corporation 3:20-cv-00718 · 2021-03-12 · civil
  9. Duchac v. United States of America 3:19-cv-02244 · 2021-03-12 · civil
  10. Clover v. Camp Pendleton & Quantico Housing LLC 3:20-cv-00567 · 2021-03-12 · civil
  11. Strojnik v. San Diego Farah Partners, L.P. 3:20-cv-00358 · 2021-03-01 · civil
  12. Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. v. U.S. Specialty Insurance Company 3:19-cv-01667 · 2021-03-01 · civil
  13. Grandesign Advertising Firm, Inc. v. Talon US (Grrandesign) LLC 3:20-cv-00719 · 2021-03-01 · civil
  14. Davis v. Saidro 3:18-cv-02838 · 2021-02-26 · civil
  15. Theroux v. Food4Less 3:20-cv-01857 · 2021-02-24 · civil
  16. United States v. Steven Diaz 19-50153 · 2021-02-22 · criminal · affirmed
  17. Corchon v. Jaime 3:19-cv-01015-LAB-LL · 2021-02-17 · civil · writ denied
  18. Sikking v. Housing of Urban Development (HUD) 3:19-cv-01004 · 2021-02-17 · civil
  19. Godwin v. Loera 3:20-cv-02001 · 2021-02-08 · civil
  20. Wilborn v. Wolf 3:20-cv-01981 · 2021-02-08 · civil
  21. Atherley v. Kernan 3:19-cv-02355 · 2021-02-08 · civil
  22. United States v. Rafael Martinez-Lopez 20-50020 · 2021-02-02 · criminal · vacated
  23. Sikking v. Housing of Urban Development (HUD) 3:19-cv-01004 · 2021-02-01 · civil
  24. Fortis Advisors LLC v. Fishawack Medical Communications LTD 3:20-cv-00607 · 2021-01-29 · civil
  25. Reynolds v. Chalmers 3:20-cv-02081 · 2021-01-29 · civil