Judge Lippman, Daniel

Not hearing cases: nothing for over two years

Last hearing: August 9, 2022
Next hearing: none scheduled
Last decision: June 25, 2024

Courts worked at: 9

Worked here before

Orlando — IMMIGRATION COURT2002—2022 · 31,774 hearings
MIAMI — IMMIGRATION COURT2011—2021 · 8,773 hearings
CLEVELAND — IMMIGRATION COURT2018—2018 · 189 hearings
CONROE — IMMIGRATION COURT2015—2017 · 1,021 hearings
OAKDALE — IMMIGRATION COURT2016—2017 · 1,383 hearings
JENA — IMMIGRATION COURT2016—2017 · 921 hearings
EL PASO — IMMIGRATION COURT2014—2014 · 18 hearings
LOS FRESNOS — IMMIGRATION COURT2014—2014 · 108 hearings
ELIZABETH — IMMIGRATION COURT2012—2012 · 129 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.

22%

Asylum grant rate

of 1,317 decisions · FY1994–FY2022

95% interval: 20% — 25%

granted:: 294
denied:: 1,023

The period has closed

This judge no longer hears cases, so the figure describes FY1994–FY2022 — 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 judge22% (1,317)
The whole court — Orlando — IMMIGRATION COURT28% (29,745)
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.

Years with fewer than 10 decisions are not plotted (7): at that sample size the percentage is noise. They remain in the table.

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Grant rate by fiscal year
Period	decisions	granted	95% interval
FY2020	67	6%	2% — 14%
FY2019	122	8%	5% — 14%
FY2018	82	10%	5% — 18%
FY2017	64	31%	21% — 43%
FY2016	54	11%	5% — 22%
FY2015	86	27%	19% — 37%
FY2014	101	20%	13% — 29%
FY2013	78	42%	32% — 53%
FY2012	75	47%	36% — 58%
FY2011	84	32%	23% — 43%
FY2010	152	28%	21% — 35%
FY2009	271	20%	16% — 25%
FY2008	67	16%	9% — 27%
FY2007	6	0%	0% — 39%
FY2006	1	0%	0% — 79%
FY2005	3	0%	0% — 56%
FY2000	1	0%	0% — 79%
FY1997	1	0%	0% — 79%
FY1995	1	0%	0% — 79%
FY1994	1	0%	0% — 79%

By applicant nationality

Grant rate by nationality, largest volumes first
Nationality	decisions	granted	95% interval
HAITI	270	14%	10% — 18%
HONDURAS	145	7%	4% — 12%
COLOMBIA	124	24%	18% — 32%
GUATEMALA	107	3%	1% — 8%
VENEZUELA	100	53%	43% — 62%
CHINA	75	27%	18% — 38%
EL SALVADOR	73	4%	1% — 11%
MEXICO	56	2%	0% — 9%
RUSSIA	55	55%	42% — 67%
MOLDAVIA (MOLDOVA)	23	70%	49% — 84%
CUBA	20	0%	0% — 16%
ALBANIA	18	11%	3% — 33%
UKRAINE	14	57%	33% — 79%
EGYPT	14	71%	45% — 88%
INDIA	12	8%	1% — 35%

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.

22 mo

median

half of cases: 13—36 mo

based on 1,317 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided in	Cases	median	half of cases, mo
FY2020	67	34 mo	10—43
FY2019	122	26 mo	6—32
FY2018	82	18 mo	11—38
FY2017	64	21 mo	4—40
FY2016	54	4 mo	3—6
FY2015	86	16 mo	10—23
FY2014	101	17 mo	13—27
FY2013	78	23 mo	14—33
FY2012	75	22 mo	13—48
FY2011	84	22 mo	15—40

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	959
Denied	339
Remand	271
Summary Affirmance	97
Dismissed (Voluntary Departure Granted)	67
Temporary Protected Status	54
Termination	52
Background Check Remand	41
Lacks Jurisdiction - BIA	39
Withdrawal of Appeal	38
Summarily Dismiss	20
Other	18
Terminate-DHS PD	13
Summary Dismissal (e) no brief	11
Moot Bond	9
Administratively Closed-DHS PD	9
Administratively Closed	8
Summary Dismissal (G) untimely or waived appeal	5
Grant with no Remand	4
Sustain	3
SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE/VD	1
Deferred Enforced Departure	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.