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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-03789 · 2026-01-07 · civil · other
  2. 3:25-cv-03601 · 2026-01-06 · civil · other
  3. 3:25-cv-03489 · 2026-01-06 · civil · other
  4. 3:26-cv-00002 · 2026-01-05 · civil · other
  5. 3:25-cv-03848 · 2026-01-05 · civil
  6. 3:25-cv-03265 · 2026-01-05 · civil · other
  7. 3:20-cv-01082 · 2026-01-05 · civil
  8. 3:25-cv-03850 · 2026-01-02 · civil · other
  9. 3:26-cv-00008 · 2026-01-02 · civil · other
  10. 3:25-cv-00959 · 2025-12-23 · civil
  11. 3:25-cv-03409 · 2025-12-22 · civil
  12. Baron v. Staff Benefits Management, Inc. 24-4233 · 2025-12-22 · civil · reversed
  13. 3:25-cv-02735 · 2025-12-19 · civil
  14. 3:25-cv-03320 · 2025-12-15 · civil · other
  15. 3:25-cv-03032 · 2025-12-12 · civil · other
  16. 3:25-cv-03252 · 2025-12-12 · civil
  17. 3:25-cv-01224 · 2025-12-12 · civil
  18. United States v. Mateo-Reyes 24-5725 · 2025-12-12 · civil · affirmed
  19. 3:25-cv-03208 · 2025-12-10 · civil · other
  20. 3:25-cv-02785 · 2025-12-02 · civil
  21. 3:25-cv-01048 · 2025-12-02 · civil
  22. 3:23-cv-02125 · 2025-11-24 · civil
  23. 3:25-cv-01146 · 2025-11-18 · civil
  24. 3:25-cv-03032 · 2025-11-14 · civil · other
  25. 3:25-cv-02746 · 2025-11-12 · civil · other