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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 authored (every role)

  1. California Coastal Commission v. North County Transit District 3:22-cv-00587 · 2022-06-02 · civil · other
  2. Parks v. Ethicon, Inc. 3:20-cv-00989 · 2022-06-02 · civil
  3. Billie v. Gibson 3:22-cv-00778 · 2022-06-01 · civil
  4. Simon v. Seaworld Parks & Entertainment, Inc. 3:21-cv-01488 · 2022-05-19 · civil
  5. Esteghalian v. Department of the Navy 3:19-cv-01808 · 2022-05-17 · civil
  6. Limbrick v. Madden 3:22-cv-00063 · 2022-05-17 · civil · other
  7. Fields v. Newsom 3:22-cv-00044 · 2022-05-16 · civil
  8. Navarrette v. Department of Homeland Security 3:22-cv-00006 · 2022-05-16 · civil
  9. Oliver v. Mihelic 3:21-cv-01807 · 2022-05-13 · civil
  10. Delaware Life Insurance Company v. Covenant Living Communities and Services 3:21-cv-01313 · 2022-05-12 · civil
  11. Petconnect Rescue, Inc. v. Salinas 3:20-cv-00527 · 2022-05-10 · civil
  12. Thistle v. The State of New Hampshire 3:21-cv-02072 · 2022-05-06 · civil
  13. United States of America v. General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc 3:21-cv-01109 · 2022-05-04 · civil
  14. Harner v. USAA General Indemnity Company 3:18-cv-01993 · 2022-04-29 · civil
  15. Harner v. USAA General Indemnity Company 3:18-cv-01993 · 2022-04-28 · civil
  16. Brinkley v. Monterey Financial Services, Inc. 3:16-cv-01103 · 2022-04-27 · civil
  17. Friends of Del Mar Bluffs v. North County Transit District 3:22-cv-00503 · 2022-04-26 · civil
  18. Randy Matthew Cordero v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation 3:21-cv-01609 · 2022-04-26 · civil · other
  19. Merhi v. Lowes Home Center, LLC 3:22-cv-00545 · 2022-04-26 · civil
  20. Muro v. Gipson 3:22-cv-00550 · 2022-04-25 · civil · other
  21. Tacoma Energy, LLC v. Residential Energy Services Network, Inc. 3:22-cv-00438 · 2022-04-18 · civil
  22. Burns v. Toth 3:22-cv-00268 · 2022-04-15 · civil
  23. Harner v. USAA General Indemnity Company 3:18-cv-01993 · 2022-04-15 · civil
  24. Romoff v. Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. 3:22-cv-00075 · 2022-04-14 · civil
  25. Tan v. Quick Box, LLC 3:20-cv-01082 · 2022-04-11 · civil