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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. Nogales v. Becerra 3:19-cv-02485 · 2020-06-02 · civil
  2. Buckelew v. Gore 3:20-cv-00938 · 2020-05-28 · civil · writ denied
  3. United States v. Oscar Ballesteros 19-50093 · 2020-05-28 · criminal · remanded
  4. Miranda v. Madden 3:19-cv-01605 · 2020-05-26 · civil
  5. Raygoza v. MTS Code Compliance Seargent J. Kresic 3:19-cv-02430 · 2020-05-26 · civil
  6. Bonilla v. Battaglia 3:20-cv-00769 · 2020-05-20 · civil
  7. United States v. Jose Rojas-Martinez 18-50186 · 2020-05-20 · criminal · vacated
  8. Escobedo v. Commissioner of Social Security 3:19-cv-00869 · 2020-05-18 · civil
  9. United States v. Raymond Militante Rebaya 18-50267 · 2020-05-18 · criminal · affirmed
  10. Langer v. Badger Co., LLC 3:18-cv-00934 · 2020-05-15 · civil
  11. United States v. Manuel Acosta-Lopez 19-50210 · 2020-05-14 · criminal · affirmed
  12. United States v. Manuel Villarreal, IV 19-50137 · 2020-05-13 · criminal · affirmed
  13. Bonilla v. Marin County 3:20-cv-00841 · 2020-05-12 · civil
  14. Lay-Styles v. Real Time Resolutions, Inc. 3:20-cv-00864 · 2020-05-11 · civil
  15. Haywood v. San Diego County Sheriff 3:20-cv-00466 · 2020-05-06 · civil
  16. Y.I. v. County of San Diego 3:20-cv-00588 · 2020-05-05 · civil
  17. Bonilla v. Don Clay 3:20-cv-00201 · 2020-05-05 · civil
  18. Atherley v. Kernan 3:19-cv-02355 · 2020-04-29 · civil
  19. Ewing v. LeadExcel, Inc 3:18-cv-02845 · 2020-04-27 · civil
  20. Bonilla v. Battaglia 3:20-cv-00769 · 2020-04-27 · civil
  21. United States v. Jose Zamudio-Silva 19-50059 · 2020-04-23 · criminal · affirmed
  22. Michael Hartsell v. County of San Diego 19-55379 · 2020-04-21 · civil · affirmed
  23. United States v. Florencio Serna-Hernandez 19-50021 · 2020-04-21 · civil · affirmed
  24. Westcott Enterprises, Inc. v. Federal Mutual Insurance Company 3:20-cv-00007 · 2020-04-20 · civil
  25. Lopez-Marroquin v. Barr 3:20-cv-00682 · 2020-04-17 · civil · writ denied