Fernando Manzano Olguin
How Judge Olguin decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Treats the 2014 California Labor Code amendments (§ 244(a)) as having eliminated administrative-exhaustion prerequisites (including UC internal exhaustion) for whistleblower § 1102.5 claims, displacing the older Campbell rule.
“Based on the foregoing, IT IS ORDERED THAT, defendant's Motion to Dismiss (Document No. 12) is denied.”
Procedural preferences
Decides motions on the papers without oral argument under L.R. 7-15 where argument is unnecessary.
“the court finds that oral argument is not necessary to resolve the Motion, see Fed. R. Civ. P. 78; Local Rule 7-15”
Cautions
Strict Fourth-Amendment exigency analysis -- a warrantless home entry is presumptively unconstitutional absent true exigent circumstances, and a mere belief that drugs 'potentially' would be destroyed does not suffice even with probable cause.
“Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (Document No. 53) is granted in part as to his claim of unlawful entry in violation of the Fourth Amendment.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Based on the foregoing, IT IS ORDERED THAT, defendant's Motion to Dismiss (Document No. 12) is denied.”
“Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (Document No. 53) is granted in part as to his claim of unlawful entry in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The Motion is denied in all other respects.”
“Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment (Document No. 53) is granted in part as to plaintiff's claim pursuant to Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs., 436 U.S. 658... The Motion is denied in all other respects.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
His civil docket includes disability-access suits, insurance and contract removals, Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims, and habeas matters; many end within months through settlement, default, or remand. Longer contested matters include securities, copyright, and qui tam litigation. The duration figures are limited to two terminated contested cases.
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