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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 authored (every role)

  1. Thinn v. Johnson 3:22-cv-00002 · 2024-04-19 · civil · writ denied
  2. Knopping v. United States 3:22-cv-01132 · 2024-04-12 · civil
  3. Freitag v. Valeiras 3:21-cv-01625 · 2024-03-29 · civil
  4. Morales-Alfaro v. CoreCivic, Inc. 3:20-cv-00082 · 2024-03-12 · civil
  5. The Estate of Elisa Serna v. County of San Diego 3:20-cv-02096 · 2024-03-05 · civil
  6. Martinez v. United States 3:23-cv-00207 · 2024-02-20 · civil
  7. Thogmartin v. Zurich American Insurance Co. 3:23-cv-01309 · 2024-02-16 · civil
  8. Latham v. Pollard 3:20-cv-02177 · 2024-02-02 · civil
  9. Water Island Event-Driven Fund v. MaxLinear, Inc. 3:23-cv-01607 · 2023-12-20 · civil
  10. 3D Systems, Inc. v. Wynne 3:21-cv-01141 · 2023-10-24 · civil
  11. Herrera v. National Vision, Inc. 3:23-cv-01350 · 2023-09-11 · civil
  12. Ritz Fuente, LLC v. SHS Armin Schafer Jr. 3:21-cv-01986 · 2023-08-17 · civil
  13. Green v. United States Forest Service 3:20-cv-01046 · 2023-08-16 · civil
  14. Green v. United States Forest Service 3:20-cv-01046 · 2023-08-16 · civil
  15. California Marine Cleaning, Inc. v. United States 3:22-cv-00741 · 2023-07-26 · civil
  16. Jackson v. Macomber 3:22-cv-00863 · 2023-07-25 · civil · writ denied
  17. Trejo v. County of Imperial 3:20-cv-01465 · 2023-06-26 · civil
  18. Blacher v. Diaz 3:20-cv-01270 · 2023-06-14 · civil
  19. California Fair Plan Association v. United States Department of Agriculture 3:21-cv-02099 · 2023-06-08 · civil
  20. Murphy v. Madden 3:21-cv-01600 · 2023-06-06 · civil · other
  21. L.W. v. Snap Inc. 3:22-cv-00619 · 2023-06-05 · civil
  22. Caceres v. United States 3:21-cv-01817 · 2023-05-26 · civil
  23. Satizabal v. United States 3:22-cv-01229 · 2023-05-26 · civil
  24. Ariix, LLC v. Nutrisearch Corporation 3:17-cv-00320 · 2023-04-13 · civil
  25. Clover v. Camp Pendleton & Quantico Housing LLC 3:20-cv-00567 · 2023-03-28 · civil