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Linda Lopez

District judge · Superior Court of Southern District of California County · 2019–2026

, District Court, S.D. California 2018–

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99% — 466.5 of 472 orders sound, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 60% 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.

14cases reviewed on appeal
513opinions authored
513panels sat on (not as author)
31%reversed, in whole or part, of 13 merits decisions

Outcomes on appeal

affirmed 9 reversed 4

The Ninth Circuit's later rulings on their dockets

affirmed 12 vacated 3 reversed 3 reversed in part 1

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

civil 13 criminal 1

By year: 2025 5 · 2026 4 · 2024 3 · 2023 2 ·

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. Parks v. Ethicon, Inc. 3:20-cv-00989 · 2022-08-03 · civil
  2. Mendez v. Global Institute Of Stem Cell Therapy And Research, USA 3:20-cv-00915 · 2022-07-29 · civil
  3. Evers v. La-Z-Boy Incorporated 3:21-cv-02100 · 2022-07-27 · civil
  4. White v. Saul 3:20-cv-02277 · 2022-07-25 · civil
  5. Sibomana v. Larose 3:22-cv-00933 · 2022-07-25 · civil
  6. Valenzuela v. San Diego Police Department 3:19-cv-00002 · 2022-07-25 · civil
  7. Study Smarter LLC v. StudySmarter UG 3:22-cv-00471 · 2022-07-11 · civil
  8. Rose v. Niccole 3:22-cv-00158 · 2022-07-05 · civil
  9. Krause-Pettai v. Unilever United States, Inc. 3:20-cv-01672 · 2022-06-28 · civil
  10. Parks v. Ethicon, Inc. 3:20-cv-00989 · 2022-06-22 · civil
  11. Doe v. San Diego Unified School District 3:21-cv-01809 · 2022-06-21 · civil
  12. Acuna v. Pollard 3:21-cv-01910 · 2022-06-17 · civil
  13. San Diego Branch of National Association For The Advancement of Colored People 3:16-cv-02575 · 2022-06-14 · civil
  14. Parker v. SDSU Police Dept (SDSUPD) 3:20-cv-00661 · 2022-06-10 · civil
  15. California Coastal Commission v. North County Transit District 3:22-cv-00587 · 2022-06-02 · civil · other
  16. Parks v. Ethicon, Inc. 3:20-cv-00989 · 2022-06-02 · civil
  17. Billie v. Gibson 3:22-cv-00778 · 2022-06-01 · civil
  18. Simon v. Seaworld Parks & Entertainment, Inc. 3:21-cv-01488 · 2022-05-19 · civil
  19. Esteghalian v. Department of the Navy 3:19-cv-01808 · 2022-05-17 · civil
  20. Limbrick v. Madden 3:22-cv-00063 · 2022-05-17 · civil · other
  21. Fields v. Newsom 3:22-cv-00044 · 2022-05-16 · civil
  22. Navarrette v. Department of Homeland Security 3:22-cv-00006 · 2022-05-16 · civil
  23. Oliver v. Mihelic 3:21-cv-01807 · 2022-05-13 · civil
  24. Delaware Life Insurance Company v. Covenant Living Communities and Services 3:21-cv-01313 · 2022-05-12 · civil
  25. Petconnect Rescue, Inc. v. Salinas 3:20-cv-00527 · 2022-05-10 · civil