Judge Atenaide, Anthony

Not hearing cases: nothing for over two years

Last hearing: July 2, 2020
Next hearing: none scheduled
Last decision: May 18, 2011

Courts worked at: 8

Worked here before

SAN DIEGO — IMMIGRATION COURT1989—2020 · 35,637 hearings
FLORENCE — IMMIGRATION COURT2005—2010 · 203 hearings
TUCSON — IMMIGRATION COURT2005—2008 · 210 hearings
PHILADELPHIA — IMMIGRATION COURT2002—2006 · 46 hearings
PHOENIX — IMMIGRATION COURT1996—2005 · 95 hearings
LOS ANGELES — WEST LOS ANGELES IMMIGRATION COURT2000—2002 · 34 hearings
HAGATNA — IMMIGRATION COURT1999—2001 · 43 hearings
LAS VEGAS — IMMIGRATION COURT1997—1998 · 46 hearings

The periods overlap, and that is not an error: a judge hears cases at a new court while still closing out old ones at the previous one. Each row answers "when did this judge work here", not "from when to when did they serve here".

Status is derived from the court calendar: whether the judge has hearings scheduled after the release cutoff. The EOIR release carries no personnel data, so retirement, removal, elevation to the BIA and extended absence cannot be told apart — only what the data shows is stated here. Hearings are scheduled two to three years out, so an empty calendar for a working judge is rare; for judges who went quiet in the last few months it may still be an artifact of the cutoff, which lags by about a month. The lookup table's "active" flag is not used: it disagrees with the calendar for a third of judges.

27%

Asylum grant rate

of 1,578 decisions · FY1990–FY2011

95% interval: 25% — 29%

granted:: 424
denied:: 1,154

The period has closed

This judge no longer hears cases, so the figure describes FY1990–FY2011 — not what happens in the court today. Asylum rules and the mix of cases have changed since.

How this percentage is calculated

Grant rate = granted / (granted + denied). Administrative closures, withdrawals, abandonment and "not adjudicated" are excluded from the denominator. The unit of count is a decision per proceeding, not per application: applicants almost always file asylum, withholding and CAT protection together. Withholding and CAT grants are counted separately from asylum. U.S. fiscal year: October 1 – September 30.

How this compares

This judge27% (1,578)
The whole court — SAN DIEGO — IMMIGRATION COURT30% (18,343)
All U.S. courts33% (1,350,724)

This comparison does not adjust for which cases a judge was given: judges see different nationalities, different shares of detained respondents, and different rates of legal representation. A difference in percentages does not by itself mean identical cases were treated differently.

Trend by fiscal year

U.S. fiscal year: October 1 – September 30.

Show as a table

Grant rate by fiscal year
Period	decisions	granted	95% interval
FY2011	29	72%	54% — 85%
FY2010	68	65%	53% — 75%
FY2009	55	69%	56% — 80%
FY2008	84	64%	54% — 74%
FY2007	63	60%	48% — 71%
FY2006	56	64%	51% — 76%
FY2005	93	26%	18% — 36%
FY2004	62	24%	15% — 36%
FY2003	77	29%	20% — 39%
FY2002	75	33%	24% — 45%
FY2001	90	20%	13% — 29%
FY2000	108	5%	2% — 10%
FY1999	129	20%	14% — 28%
FY1998	106	17%	11% — 25%
FY1997	194	2%	1% — 5%
FY1996	248	10%	7% — 14%
FY1995	41	29%	18% — 44%

By applicant nationality

Grant rate by nationality, largest volumes first
Nationality	decisions	granted	95% interval
SOMALIA	293	39%	34% — 45%
GUATEMALA	276	5%	3% — 8%
MEXICO	240	5%	3% — 9%
IRAQ	179	77%	70% — 83%
CHINA	108	36%	28% — 46%
EL SALVADOR	63	3%	1% — 11%
ETHIOPIA	43	58%	43% — 72%
PHILIPPINES	31	0%	0% — 11%
IRAN	24	21%	9% — 40%
HONDURAS	22	9%	3% — 28%
RUSSIA	18	33%	16% — 56%
NICARAGUA	17	0%	0% — 18%
AFGHANISTAN	17	24%	10% — 47%
Former Countries	14	29%	12% — 55%
ALBANIA	14	21%	8% — 48%

How long a case takes

How long it took from service of the NTA to the decision on the application, for the cases this judge has already finished.

7 mo

median

half of cases: 4—11 mo

based on 1,578 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided in	Cases	median	half of cases, mo
FY2010	68	7 mo	5—11
FY2009	55	4 mo	3—9
FY2008	84	7 mo	4—9
FY2007	63	11 mo	7—24
FY2006	56	7 mo	5—38
FY2005	93	7 mo	5—10
FY2004	62	7 mo	5—9
FY2003	77	7 mo	6—12
FY2002	75	12 mo	6—16
FY2001	90	9 mo	5—15

Duration runs from the NTA date (charging document served) to the decision on the application. Median, not mean: the distribution has a long right tail. Cases decided this year may have begun a decade ago, so duration by year of decision is not a forecast for a case filed today.

The queue

Cases with no decision yet. A different figure from the duration of completed cases: quick cases leave the queue first, so the long ones accumulate among those still waiting.

No undecided cases in this release.

What became of appeals to the BIA

An immigration judge's decision can be appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals. This is what the Board did with those appeals. A high share of reversals and remands tells a different story than a low grant rate alone.

What became of appeals to the BIA
BIA decision	Appeals
Dismiss Appeal/Affirm IJ's Decision	353
Remand	248
Summary Affirmance	164
Dismissed (Grant V/D 30 days)	145
Denied	115
Withdrawal of Appeal	78
Sustain	70
SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE/VD	62
Other	46
Granted	43
Lacks Jurisdiction - BIA	42
Background Check Remand	34
Termination	27
Dismiss as Untimely	20
Temporary Protected Status	20
Summarily Dismiss	19
Moot Bond	15
Dismiss Soriano	12
Continued	10
Grant with no Remand	9
Dismissed (Voluntary Departure Granted)	6
Terminate-DHS PD	6
Rejection	4
Dismissed as Moot	2
Coercive Population Control	2
Conditional Grant--CPC Asylum	1
SUMMARY DISMISSAL - BOTH (a) & (e)	1
Deferred Enforced Departure	1
Denied Soriano	1
Summary Dismissal (e) no brief	1
Summary Dismissal (a) inad reason on appeal	1

Data comes from the monthly EOIR Case Data release (U.S. DOJ FOIA Library). This service is not affiliated with the U.S. government and does not provide legal advice. The data lags by roughly a month; for current case status use ACIS and Respondent Access. The source is known to have missing records, including relief applications — absent data does not mean it is absent from your case.