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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. 3:15-cv-01997 · 2025-10-20 · civil · other
  2. 3:25-cv-02490 · 2025-10-17 · civil
  3. 3:25-cv-01956 · 2025-10-17 · civil
  4. 3:25-cv-01432 · 2025-10-17 · civil
  5. 3:24-cv-01221 · 2025-10-17 · civil
  6. Dalrada Financial Corporation v. Bonar 3:24-cv-02166 · 2025-10-10 · civil
  7. Dalrada Financial Corporation v. Bonar 3:24-cv-02166 · 2025-09-23 · civil
  8. Sanchez v. San Diego District Attorney 3:25-cv-02335 · 2025-09-18 · civil · other
  9. Panzl v. United Airlines, Inc. 3:25-cv-02046 · 2025-09-12 · civil
  10. Gomez v. Gonzalez 3965 3:23-cv-02026 · 2025-09-12 · civil
  11. Ruiz v. the Bradford Exchange, Ltd. 24-3378 · 2025-08-28 · civil · vacated
  12. Cabrera v. Ford Motor Company 3:23-cv-01775 · 2025-08-26 · civil
  13. Sansone v. Charter Communications, Inc. 3:17-cv-01880 · 2025-08-08 · civil
  14. The Estate of Roselee Bartolacci v. County of San Diego 3:24-cv-01156 · 2025-07-31 · civil
  15. Limpin v. Unknown Names of Federal Employees of Social Security Administration 3:25-cv-00956 · 2025-07-17 · civil
  16. Quade v. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC 3:24-cv-02120 · 2025-07-17 · civil
  17. Hale v. Kijakazi 3:22-cv-01963 · 2025-07-17 · civil
  18. Alonso v. Quan 23-3367 · 2025-07-17 · civil · affirmed
  19. Dalrada Financial Corporation v. Bonar 3:24-cv-02166 · 2025-07-16 · civil
  20. North v. Salazar 3:25-cv-01750 · 2025-07-14 · civil
  21. Williams v. Alvarado 3:24-cv-01501 · 2025-07-11 · civil
  22. Salazar v. O'Malley 3:24-cv-01432 · 2025-07-10 · civil
  23. (PC) Juarez v. Abdi 3:25-cv-01432 · 2025-07-07 · civil
  24. Jones v. Equifax Information Services, LLC 3:25-cv-00946 · 2025-07-07 · civil
  25. Lily v. Rosenow 3:23-cv-00644 · 2025-07-07 · civil