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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. 3:25-cv-00140 · 2026-08-10 · civil
  2. 3:26-cv-04163 · 2026-08-07 · civil · other
  3. 3:26-cv-03699 · 2026-08-07 · civil · other
  4. 3:24-cv-00384 · 2026-07-31 · civil
  5. 3:26-cv-03758 · 2026-07-29 · civil · other
  6. 3:25-cv-03113 · 2026-07-29 · civil
  7. 3:26-cv-01272 · 2026-07-24 · civil
  8. 3:25-cv-02887 · 2026-07-20 · civil
  9. 3:26-cv-04029 · 2026-07-17 · civil
  10. 3:26-cv-03180 · 2026-07-17 · civil · other
  11. 3:25-cv-00140 · 2026-07-17 · civil
  12. 3:26-cv-03148 · 2026-07-15 · civil
  13. 3:25-cv-01146 · 2026-07-15 · civil
  14. Relator, LLC v. Erskine 25-2073 · 2026-07-15 · civil
  15. 3:26-cv-02756 · 2026-07-13 · civil
  16. 3:26-cv-03741 · 2026-07-01 · civil · other
  17. 3:26-cv-03178 · 2026-06-30 · civil · other
  18. 3:26-cv-03452 · 2026-06-25 · civil · other
  19. 3:26-cv-02958 · 2026-06-24 · civil · other
  20. 3:26-cv-03321 · 2026-06-23 · civil · other
  21. 3:26-cv-03312 · 2026-06-23 · civil · other
  22. 3:26-cv-00843 · 2026-06-15 · civil · other
  23. 3:26-cv-02116 · 2026-06-10 · civil · other
  24. 3:26-cv-02982 · 2026-06-02 · civil · other
  25. 3:26-cv-02394 · 2026-06-01 · civil · writ granted