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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. Jahvaris Springfield 22-50031 · 2023-06-29 · criminal · affirmed
  2. Trejo v. County of Imperial 3:20-cv-01465 · 2023-06-26 · civil
  3. Blacher v. Diaz 3:20-cv-01270 · 2023-06-14 · civil
  4. California Fair Plan Association v. United States Department of Agriculture 3:21-cv-02099 · 2023-06-08 · civil
  5. Murphy v. Madden 3:21-cv-01600 · 2023-06-06 · civil · other
  6. L.W. v. Snap Inc. 3:22-cv-00619 · 2023-06-05 · civil
  7. United States v. Adrianna Rivas 22-50021 · 2023-05-30 · criminal · dismissed
  8. Caceres v. United States 3:21-cv-01817 · 2023-05-26 · civil
  9. Satizabal v. United States 3:22-cv-01229 · 2023-05-26 · civil
  10. United States v. Armando Orozco-Barron 21-50298 · 2023-05-22 · criminal · affirmed
  11. United States v. Manuel Rodrigues-Barios 21-50145 · 2023-05-22 · civil · affirmed
  12. United States v. Armando Orozco-Barron 21-50298 · 2023-05-22 · criminal · affirmed
  13. United States v. Michael Mac Cleary 21-50240 · 2023-04-25 · criminal · affirmed
  14. Ariix, LLC v. Nutrisearch Corporation 3:17-cv-00320 · 2023-04-13 · civil
  15. Michael Hartsell v. County of San Diego 21-56045 · 2023-03-29 · civil · affirmed
  16. Clover v. Camp Pendleton & Quantico Housing LLC 3:20-cv-00567 · 2023-03-28 · civil
  17. Allen v. Government Employees Insurance Company 3:21-cv-00569 · 2023-03-22 · civil
  18. United States v. Laura Cruz 22-50122 · 2023-03-21 · criminal · affirmed
  19. Zarrabian v. United States Citizenship & Immigration Services 3:21-cv-01962 · 2023-03-06 · civil
  20. Clover v. Camp Pendleton & Quantico Housing LLC 3:20-cv-00567 · 2023-03-04 · civil
  21. Green v. United States Forest Service 3:20-cv-01046 · 2023-02-27 · civil
  22. Morales-Alfaro v. CoreCivic, Inc. 3:20-cv-00082 · 2023-02-24 · civil
  23. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Champion-Cain 3:19-cv-01628 · 2023-02-24 · civil
  24. United States v. Jose Deleon-Juarez 21-50243 · 2023-02-22 · criminal
  25. United States v. Jacinto Alvarez 21-50088 · 2023-02-16 · criminal · affirmed