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William Q. Hayes
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William Q. Hayes

District judge · Superior Court of Southern District of California County · 2005–2026

Judge, District Court, S.D. California 2003–

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98% — 459.5 of 467 orders sound, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 74% 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.

176cases reviewed on appeal
528opinions authored
529panels sat on (not as author)
21%reversed, in whole or part, of 154 merits decisions

Outcomes on appeal

affirmed 121 reversed 15 vacated 11 reversed in part 7 remanded 5 dismissed 4

The Ninth Circuit's later rulings on their dockets

affirmed 25 reversed in part 5 vacated 2 reversed 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 94 criminal 76 probate 5 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

  1. United States v. Tamim Abdul-Samad 16-56388 · 2018-12-05 · civil · affirmed
  2. Oscar Olivas v. David Salazar 17-56276 · 2018-11-29 · civil · reversed
  3. Frederic Schultz v. John Roberts, Jr. 17-56852 · 2018-10-26 · civil · affirmed
  4. United States v. Hector Orozco 18-50073 · 2018-09-18 · criminal · affirmed
  5. Jeffrey Heston v. Gb Capital Holdings, LLC 18-55125 · 2018-08-21 · civil · affirmed
  6. Theresa Jones v. United States 17-55234 · 2018-08-09 · civil · affirmed
  7. Don Higginson v. Xavier Becerra 18-55455 · 2018-07-31 · civil · reversed
  8. United States v. Jorge Cordova-Villa 17-50221 · 2018-07-23 · criminal · affirmed
  9. Tyrone Rogers v. G. Giurbino 17-55693 · 2018-07-20 · civil · affirmed
  10. Don Higginson v. Xavier Becerra 18-55455 · 2018-06-14 · civil · reversed
  11. Renewal Services v. Uspto 16-56088 · 2018-05-18 · civil · affirmed
  12. United States v. Murquis Malone 18-50021 · 2018-05-18 · criminal · affirmed
  13. United States v. Javier Moreno-Mendoza 17-50262 · 2018-05-17 · criminal · dismissed
  14. Kathryn Robinson v. Onstar, LLC 16-56412 · 2018-05-01 · civil · reversed
  15. Kathryn Robinson v. Onstar, LLC 16-56412 · 2018-03-15 · civil · reversed
  16. Catherine Woolsey v. Jp Morgan Ventures Energy Corp 15-56697 · 2017-05-12 · civil · affirmed
  17. United States v. Pablo Alvarez-Jimenez 15-50552 · 2017-04-19 · criminal · dismissed
  18. Thomas Nguyen v. Eduardo Lopez 15-56996 · 2017-03-20 · civil · affirmed
  19. United States v. Fernando Cruz-Mercado 16-50024 · 2017-01-25 · criminal · affirmed
  20. United States v. Marcos De Jesus-Zeferino 16-50253 · 2017-01-24 · criminal · affirmed
  21. United States Ex Rel. Kelly v. Serco, Inc. 14-56769 · 2017-01-12 · civil · affirmed
  22. United States v. Raymond Appelwick 15-50421 · 2016-12-20 · criminal · affirmed
  23. United States v. Miguel Garcia-Aguilar 15-50336 · 2016-12-19 · criminal · vacated
  24. United States v. Rafael Zamarripa-Baca 15-50402 · 2016-12-19 · criminal · vacated
  25. United States v. Sergio Rodriguez-Dominguez 15-50383 · 2016-12-19 · criminal · vacated