Roger T. Benitez
Judge, District Court, S.D. California 2004–
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.
Outcomes on appeal
affirmed 122 vacated 20 reversed 20 remanded 7 reversed in part 5 dismissed 4
The Ninth Circuit's later rulings on their dockets
affirmed 14 reversed 4 reversed in part 2
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
criminal 126 civil 64 probate 1 other 1
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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)
- Kelley v. Berryhill
- Flowrider Surf, Ltd. v. Pacific Surf Designs, Inc.
- Backgrid USA, Inc. v. Euphoric Supply Inc.
- Hudson Specialty Insurance Company v. Hofer
- Cammarata v. Kelly Capital, LLC
- P.I.C. International, Inc. v. Gooper Hermetic, LTD.
- Luna v. BMW of North America, LLC
- Politte v. Commissioner of Social Security
- Bishop v. Boral Industries, Inc.
- Golden Eye Media USA, Inc. v. Trolley Bags UK Ltd
- Perin v. State Bank of Texas
- Pulse Electronics, Inc. v. U.D. Electronic Corp.
- Hartranft v. Encore Capital Group, Inc
- Eubanks v. Espinoza
- McKinney Capital & Advisory, LLC v. Silver Arch Capital Partners, LLC
- Qualcomm Incorporated Securities Litigation v. Qualcomm Incorporated
- Park Assist, LLC v. San Diego County Regional Airport Authority
- Rutherford v. JC Resorts, LLC
- Hedayatzadeh v. City of Del Mar
- MRSI Systems, LLC v. Palomar Technologies, Inc.
- Zaback v. Kellogg Sales Company
- Herbert v. Barnes & Noble, Inc.
- Cherewick v. State Farm Fire and Casualty
- Johnson v. United States of America
- Simpson Performance Products, Inc. v. NecksGen Inc.