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Roger T. Benitez
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Roger T. Benitez

District judge · Superior Court of Southern District of California County · 2007–2026

Judge, District Court, S.D. California 2004–

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99% — 364.0 of 368 orders sound, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 58% 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.

192cases reviewed on appeal
408opinions authored
422panels sat on (not as author)
27%reversed, in whole or part, of 167 merits decisions

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

By year: 2018 31 · 2017 24 · 2016 19 · 2020 16 · 2021 15 · 2019 12 · 2011 10 · 2024 8 · 2022 8 · 2009 7 · 2007 7 · 2025 5 · 2010 5 · 2008 5 · 2023 4 · 2015 4 · 2013 4 · 2012 4 · 2026 2 · 2014 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. Miller v. Bonta 3:22-cv-01446 · 2022-12-19 · civil
  2. Novalk, LLC v. Kinsale Insurance Company 3:22-cv-00290 · 2022-12-09 · civil
  3. Gutierrez Perez v. City of San Diego 3:22-cv-00712 · 2022-12-08 · civil
  4. South Bay Rod & Gun Club, Inc. v. Bonta 3:22-cv-01461 · 2022-12-01 · civil
  5. Miller v. Bonta 3:22-cv-01446 · 2022-12-01 · civil
  6. Miller v. Bonta 3:22-cv-01446 · 2022-12-01 · civil
  7. Nunn v. United States Liability Insurance Company 3:21-cv-01473 · 2022-11-25 · civil
  8. Kirby v. AT&T Corp. 3:21-cv-01680 · 2022-11-23 · civil
  9. Reintegrative Therapy Association, Inc. v. Kinitz 3:21-cv-01297 · 2022-09-26 · civil
  10. Best Fresh, LLC v. Vantaggio Farming Corporation 3:21-cv-00131 · 2022-09-08 · civil
  11. Stone Brewing Co., LLC v. Molson Coors Brewing Company 3:18-cv-00331 · 2022-07-29 · civil
  12. Palomar Health v. Aglic 21-56073 · 2022-07-28 · civil · affirmed
  13. Christopher Garnier v. Michelle O'connor-Ratcliff 21-55118 · 2022-07-27 · probate · affirmed
  14. United States v. Segundo Dominguez-Caicedo 19-50268 · 2022-07-18 · criminal · remanded
  15. Syed v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 3:21-cv-01098 · 2022-07-14 · civil
  16. Fernandez v. Progressive Management Systems 3:21-cv-00841 · 2022-07-07 · civil
  17. United States v. Maurice Smith 21-50120 · 2022-07-07 · criminal · affirmed
  18. Barton v. Harker 3:21-cv-01332 · 2022-07-05 · civil
  19. United States v. Richard Mathews 19-56110 · 2022-06-13 · criminal
  20. Rodriguez v. Equifax Information Services, LLC 3:21-cv-01421 · 2022-06-09 · civil
  21. Barker v. Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation 3:21-cv-01192 · 2022-05-31 · civil
  22. In Re Enrique V. Greenberg 3:21-cv-01842 · 2022-05-23 · civil
  23. Astorga v. County of San Diego 3:21-cv-00463 · 2022-05-17 · civil
  24. United States v. Robert Collazo 15-50509 · 2022-05-17 · criminal · reversed in part
  25. Roman v. Hertz Local Edition Corp. 3:20-cv-02462 · 2022-05-16 · civil