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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. Gallagher v. Philipps 3:20-cv-00993 · 2022-03-22 · civil
  2. Thistle v. The State of Arkansas 3:21-cv-02075 · 2022-03-22 · civil
  3. Thistle v. The State of Ohio 3:21-cv-02071 · 2022-03-22 · civil
  4. Thistle v. The State of New Hampshire 3:21-cv-02072 · 2022-03-22 · civil
  5. Thistle v. The State of Alabama 3:21-cv-02073 · 2022-03-22 · civil
  6. Leonard v. Tegna, Inc. 3:20-cv-01612 · 2022-03-22 · civil
  7. Delaware Life Insurance Company v. Covenant Living Communities and Services 3:21-cv-01313 · 2022-03-22 · civil
  8. (HC) Tapia v. Cisneros 3:22-cv-00283 · 2022-03-10 · civil · writ denied
  9. Harner v. USAA General Indemnity Company 3:18-cv-01993 · 2022-03-10 · civil
  10. Navarrette v. Department of Homeland Security 3:22-cv-00006 · 2022-03-10 · civil
  11. Roberts v. Allison 3:22-cv-00251 · 2022-03-10 · civil · other
  12. Petconnect Rescue, Inc. v. Salinas 3:20-cv-00527 · 2022-03-09 · civil
  13. Mascorro v. The City of San Diego 3:21-cv-01725 · 2022-03-08 · civil
  14. Mascorro v. The County of San Diego 3:21-cv-02012 · 2022-03-08 · civil
  15. Leonard v. Tegna, Inc. 3:20-cv-01612 · 2022-03-08 · civil
  16. Mascorro v. The City of San Diego 3:21-cv-01427 · 2022-03-08 · civil
  17. Fields v. Newsom 3:22-cv-00044 · 2022-03-04 · civil
  18. Sihler v. The Fulfillment Lab, Inc 3:20-cv-01528 · 2022-03-03 · civil
  19. Sihler v. The Fulfillment Lab, Inc 3:20-cv-01528 · 2022-03-02 · civil
  20. United States v. LeBeau 3:17-cv-01046 · 2022-03-01 · civil
  21. Shop My Porch, Inc. v. Sidransky 3:21-cv-02154 · 2022-03-01 · civil
  22. Aton Center Inc. v. Magellan Behavioral Health Systems, LLC 3:21-cv-01868 · 2022-03-01 · civil
  23. G & G Closed Circuit Events, LLC v. California Center for the Arts, Escondido, Foundation 3:20-cv-02137 · 2022-02-28 · civil
  24. Esteghalian v. Department of the Navy 3:19-cv-01808 · 2022-02-24 · civil
  25. Sanchez-Rivera v. Archambeault 3:21-cv-01654 · 2022-02-16 · civil