Judge Dogin, Henry S.

Not hearing cases: nothing for over two years

Last hearing: December 30, 2008
Next hearing: none scheduled
Last decision: December 30, 2008

Courts worked at: 6

Worked here before

NEWARK — IMMIGRATION COURT1985—2008 · 44,031 hearings
Orlando — IMMIGRATION COURT2003—2008 · 65 hearings
ELIZABETH — IMMIGRATION COURT1994—2007 · 469 hearings
BOSTON — IMMIGRATION COURT2000—2005 · 56 hearings
NAPANOCH — IMMIGRATION COURT1995—2004 · 630 hearings
LOS ANGELES — WEST LOS ANGELES IMMIGRATION COURT1994—1995 · 28 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.

31%

Asylum grant rate

of 2,991 decisions · FY1987–FY2009

95% interval: 30% — 33%

granted:: 941
denied:: 2,050

The period has closed

This judge no longer hears cases, so the figure describes FY1987–FY2009 — 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 judge31% (2,991)
The whole court — NEWARK — IMMIGRATION COURT28% (34,751)
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
FY2009	41	29%	18% — 44%
FY2008	180	36%	29% — 43%
FY2007	151	29%	22% — 37%
FY2006	157	31%	24% — 39%
FY2005	200	31%	25% — 38%
FY2004	180	30%	24% — 37%
FY2003	223	40%	34% — 46%
FY2002	221	33%	28% — 40%
FY2001	247	48%	42% — 54%
FY2000	257	37%	32% — 43%
FY1999	265	30%	25% — 36%
FY1998	232	25%	19% — 30%
FY1997	270	27%	22% — 33%
FY1996	265	23%	18% — 28%
FY1995	102	7%	3% — 13%

By applicant nationality

Grant rate by nationality, largest volumes first
Nationality	decisions	granted	95% interval
CHINA	489	45%	41% — 50%
INDIA	169	14%	10% — 20%
EL SALVADOR	156	1%	0% — 5%
GUATEMALA	151	5%	2% — 9%
EGYPT	147	46%	38% — 54%
ALBANIA	145	50%	42% — 58%
COLOMBIA	138	14%	9% — 21%
HAITI	112	4%	2% — 10%
LIBERIA	109	65%	56% — 73%
INDONESIA	100	13%	8% — 21%
PAKISTAN	79	23%	15% — 33%
Former Countries	68	44%	33% — 56%
RUSSIA	60	55%	42% — 67%
PERU	54	11%	5% — 22%
UKRAINE	54	48%	35% — 61%

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.

9 mo

median

half of cases: 6—13 mo

based on 2,991 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided in	Cases	median	half of cases, mo
FY2009	41	16 mo	10—36
FY2008	180	13 mo	8—30
FY2007	151	11 mo	8—16
FY2006	157	12 mo	8—22
FY2005	200	8 mo	6—11
FY2004	180	11 mo	7—19
FY2003	223	10 mo	8—17
FY2002	221	9 mo	7—14
FY2001	247	10 mo	6—14
FY2000	257	8 mo	5—12

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	703
Denied	620
Remand	479
Summary Affirmance	285
Dismissed (Grant V/D 30 days)	224
Dismissed (Voluntary Departure Granted)	184
SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE/VD	178
Withdrawal of Appeal	118
Lacks Jurisdiction - BIA	100
Termination	81
Summarily Dismiss	66
Other	62
Granted	57
Temporary Protected Status	42
Sustain	41
Background Check Remand	40
Dismiss as Untimely	22
Grant with no Remand	18
Terminate-DHS PD	12
Continued	11
Dismiss Soriano	11
Moot Bond	11
Rejection	10
Deferred Enforced Departure	8
Summary Dismissal (e) no brief	5
Dismissed as Moot	4
Summary Dismissal (a) inad reason on appeal	4
Coercive Population Control	4
Granted Soriano	2
ANY CONDITIONAL GRANT OF RELIEF-EXCEPT CPC	1
Other Soriano	1
SUMMARY DISMISSAL - BOTH (a) & (e)	1
Denied Soriano	1
Administratively Closed	1
MB	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.