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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. Navarrette v. Department of Homeland Security 3:22-cv-00006 · 2022-01-25 · civil
  2. Moore v. Saul 3:20-cv-01608 · 2022-01-25 · civil
  3. Parks v. Ethicon, Inc. 3:20-cv-00989 · 2022-01-24 · civil
  4. Acuna v. Pollard 3:21-cv-01910 · 2022-01-20 · civil
  5. Morris v. Blade 3:21-cv-00235 · 2022-01-05 · civil
  6. EpicentRx, Inc. v. Carter 3:20-cv-01058 · 2021-12-22 · civil
  7. D.C. v. County of San Diego 3:15-cv-01868 · 2021-12-21 · civil
  8. McGuffie v. Kijakazi 3:21-cv-01997 · 2021-12-20 · civil
  9. Veterans Rideshare, Inc. v. Navistar International Corporation 3:20-cv-01304 · 2021-12-16 · civil
  10. DNA Genotek Inc. v. Spectrum Solutions L.L.C. 3:21-cv-00516 · 2021-12-14 · civil
  11. Diaz v. Capital One, N.A. 3:21-cv-00526 · 2021-11-30 · civil
  12. Amend v. Kijakazi 3:20-cv-01566 · 2021-11-18 · civil
  13. Strike 3 Holdings, LLC v. Doe 3:21-cv-01726 · 2021-11-18 · civil
  14. Diaz v. Capital One, N.A. 3:21-cv-00526 · 2021-10-22 · civil
  15. Maag v. U.S. Bank National Association 3:21-cv-00031 · 2021-10-12 · civil
  16. Eggert v. Berryhill 3:19-cv-01024-LL · 2021-10-07 · civil
  17. Vilen v. Kijakazi 3:20-cv-01547 · 2021-10-04 · civil
  18. Houston Casualty Company v. Cibus US LLC 3:19-cv-00828 · 2021-09-28 · civil
  19. Lee Taylor v. Saul 3:20-cv-00985 · 2021-09-07 · civil
  20. Valdelamar-Ortuno v. Saul 3:20-cv-01634 · 2021-07-16 · civil
  21. Allen v. Kijakazi 3:21-cv-00981 · 2021-06-21 · civil
  22. Vangieson v. Miller 3:20-cv-01033 · 2021-06-04 · civil
  23. Strike 3 Holdings, LLC v. Doe 3:21-cv-00590 · 2021-05-07 · civil
  24. Bencomo v. Diaz 3:20-cv-01550 · 2021-05-05 · civil
  25. Henderson v. Saul 3:20-cv-00911 · 2021-04-15 · civil