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Alex C. McDonald

Justice, Court of Appeal · California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division One · 1995–2016

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal, 4th District 1995–2016

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98% — 539.0 of 548 opinions sound, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 52% of 80 graded judges

On the assumption that the model is right — qwen3.8-27b reads the court's own disposition right 70% of the time, 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.

582opinions authored
1,288panels sat on (not as author)

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 sat on (every role)

  1. In re R.A. CA4/1 D067890 · 2015-12-16 · dependency · affirmed
  2. Herttua v. American Commercial Equities Three CA4/1 D066377 · 2015-12-16 · civil · affirmed
  3. People v. Rief CA4/1 D065992 · 2015-12-15 · criminal · affirmed
  4. People v. Almaraz CA4/1 D067499 · 2015-12-11 · delinquency · reversed
  5. Jones v. Badagliacco-Cabrera CA4/1 D066359 · 2015-12-02 · civil · affirmed
  6. In re Mason M. CA4/1 D068009 · 2015-11-30 · dependency · affirmed
  7. City of San Bernardino Municipal Water Dept. v. American Alternative Ins. Corp. CA4/1 D068482 · 2015-11-25 · civil · affirmed
  8. San Diegans for Open Govt. v. City of San Diego CA4/1 D065929 · 2015-11-23 · civil · affirmed
  9. Payan v. Superior Court CA4/1 D067852 · 2015-11-23 · civil · writ granted
  10. People v. Lopez CA4/1 D068685 · 2015-11-20 · criminal · reversed in part
  11. County of San Diego v. Superior Court D068016 · 2015-11-20 · civil · writ granted
  12. Griffin v. The Haunted Hotel, Inc. D066715 · 2015-11-20 · civil · affirmed
  13. San Diegans for Open Government v. City of San Diego D067127 · 2015-11-20 · civil · affirmed
  14. People v. Lopez CA4/1 D068727 · 2015-11-20 · criminal · affirmed
  15. People v. Jones CA4/1 D067589 · 2015-11-20 · criminal · affirmed
  16. People v. Barbarin CA4/1 D068066 · 2015-11-16 · criminal · affirmed
  17. People v. Guerrero CA4/1 D066021 · 2015-11-13 · delinquency · affirmed
  18. People v. Limpin CA4/1 D067058 · 2015-11-12 · criminal · reversed in part
  19. People v. Rivera CA4/1 D065375 · 2015-11-09 · criminal · reversed in part
  20. Twenty-Nine Palms Enterprises v. Cadmus Construction CA4/1 D067422 · 2015-11-06 · civil · reversed
  21. Buchanan v. Soto D065652 · 2015-11-06 · civil · affirmed
  22. Arnold v. Toole CA4/1 D067317 · 2015-11-05 · civil · affirmed
  23. People v. Woods D066741M · 2015-11-02 · criminal · reversed in part
  24. People v. Zamora CA4/1 D066282 · 2015-10-29 · criminal · affirmed
  25. League of California Cities v. Superior Court D067969 · 2015-10-28 · civil · writ granted