Angela C. C. Viramontes

How Judge Viramontes rules, drawn from 25 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Court
United States District Court for the Central District of California
Position
magistrate
Commissioned
2026-01-20
Education
University of California, Berkeley, B.A., Sociology, highest honors (1998); University of California, Berkeley School of Law, J.D. (2002)
Signed orders read
25

How Judge Viramontes decides

Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

What persuades

Where re-detention occurred without advance process, the court treated procedural safeguards as the decisive issue.

“Having found Respondents violated Petitioner’s procedural due process rights,”

Procedural preferences

For class members covered by existing bond-hearing relief, the court limited the remedy to an individualized hearing or release.

“Respondents concede that Petitioner is a class member entitled to a bond”

Cautions

A detention claim was denied when the predicate period for the requested hearing had not yet elapsed.

“his claim is not yet ripe for judicial review.”

Signed rulings

A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.

Yi Zheng v. Marin
5:26-cv-00519 · 2026-06-17
Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted

“The Court ORDERS: 1. Petitioners Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (Dkt. No. 1) is GRANTED.”

Jitender Singh v. James Janecka
5:26-cv-01414 · 2026-04-29
Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted

“the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in this action is granted”

Agnes Maria v. Ernesto Santacruz Jr
8:26-cv-00814 · 2026-04-30
Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted

“the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in this action shall be granted”

Donald Antonio Alvarez Rivera v. Warden, Desert View Facility
5:26-cv-01792 · 2026-05-27
Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted

“the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in this action is granted”

Edwin Eduardo Melgar Monterroso v. Fereti Semaia
5:26-cv-01911 · 2026-05-14
Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted

“the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus is granted”

Brian George Davis v. Todd Lyons
5:26-cv-01944 · 2026-05-13
Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted

“the Court GRANTS the Petition”

Motion for temporary restraining order (petitioner) Moot / procedural

“Petitioner’s TRO Application is DENIED as MOOT.”

Carlos Alexis Sanchez Cabrejos v. Markwayne Mullin
5:26-cv-02005 · 2026-05-13
Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted

“the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus is granted”

Elvin G. Amador Arauz v. Acting Warden Facility Administrator of the Adelanto Detention Facility
5:26-cv-02080 · 2026-05-13
Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted

“the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus is granted”

Victor Alonso Molina v. Shannon Dicus
5:26-cv-02280 · 2026-05-29
Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted

“the Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in this action is granted”

Mkhitar Mnatsakanyan v. Fereti Semaia
5:26-cv-02417 · 2026-06-09
Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted

“the Court GRANTS the Petition”

Rosa Cecilia Reyes De Vasquez v. Warden of the Adelanto Detention Center
5:26-cv-02400 · 2026-05-15
Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted

“ORDER GRANTING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS by Magistrate Judge Angela C. C. Viramontes”

Diana Polo Torres v. Markwayne Mullin
5:26-cv-02584 · 2026-06-23
Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted

“the Court GRANTS the Petition”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

The reviewed docket reflects a concentrated immigration-detention consent program. Many recent matters remained pending, and case-level termination metadata lagged several signed judgments.

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