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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. Thistle v. The State of New Hampshire 3:21-cv-02072 · 2022-05-06 · civil
  2. United States of America v. General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc 3:21-cv-01109 · 2022-05-04 · civil
  3. Harner v. USAA General Indemnity Company 3:18-cv-01993 · 2022-04-29 · civil
  4. Harner v. USAA General Indemnity Company 3:18-cv-01993 · 2022-04-28 · civil
  5. Brinkley v. Monterey Financial Services, Inc. 3:16-cv-01103 · 2022-04-27 · civil
  6. Friends of Del Mar Bluffs v. North County Transit District 3:22-cv-00503 · 2022-04-26 · civil
  7. Randy Matthew Cordero v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation 3:21-cv-01609 · 2022-04-26 · civil · other
  8. Merhi v. Lowes Home Center, LLC 3:22-cv-00545 · 2022-04-26 · civil
  9. Muro v. Gipson 3:22-cv-00550 · 2022-04-25 · civil · other
  10. Tacoma Energy, LLC v. Residential Energy Services Network, Inc. 3:22-cv-00438 · 2022-04-18 · civil
  11. Burns v. Toth 3:22-cv-00268 · 2022-04-15 · civil
  12. Harner v. USAA General Indemnity Company 3:18-cv-01993 · 2022-04-15 · civil
  13. Romoff v. Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. 3:22-cv-00075 · 2022-04-14 · civil
  14. Tan v. Quick Box, LLC 3:20-cv-01082 · 2022-04-11 · civil
  15. Acuna v. Pollard 3:21-cv-01910 · 2022-04-11 · civil
  16. Gross v. Vilore Foods Company, Inc. 3:20-cv-00894 · 2022-04-08 · civil
  17. Hale v. Villalpando 3:21-cv-01884 · 2022-04-04 · civil · other
  18. Lee v. Netgain Technology, LLC 3:21-cv-01144 · 2022-04-01 · civil
  19. Grimes v. A1-Auto Care 3:21-cv-02093 · 2022-03-30 · civil
  20. Oliver v. Mihelic 3:21-cv-01807 · 2022-03-30 · civil
  21. Kirvin v. Morffin 3:22-cv-00227 · 2022-03-30 · civil
  22. Mascorro v. The City of San Diego 3:21-cv-01427 · 2022-03-23 · civil
  23. Ruiz v. Scripps Health 3:22-cv-00233 · 2022-03-22 · civil
  24. Thistle v. The State of Colorado 3:21-cv-02076 · 2022-03-22 · civil
  25. Wilbor v. GG Homes, Inc. 3:21-cv-00226 · 2022-03-22 · civil