Christina A. Snyder
How Judge Snyder decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In class actions spanning plaintiffs inside and outside the Ninth Circuit she differentiates by governing circuit law, granting partial summary judgment against out-of-circuit plaintiffs while denying it as to those within the Ninth Circuit.
“ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT AS TO ALL PLAINTIFFS OUTSIDE THE NINTH CIRCUIT[;] DENYING DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT AS TO PLAINTIFFS IN THE NINTH CIRCUIT”
Procedural preferences
Resolves multiple pending motions in a single omnibus order, e.g. granting a defendant's summary judgment while denying the plaintiff's motions to amend and to compel arbitration in one ruling.
“ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT (filed 09/12/07) ... CHRISTINA A. SNYDER, District Judge.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT (filed 09/12/07) ... CHRISTINA A. SNYDER, District Judge.”
“ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO AMEND THE COMPLAINT (filed 09/18/07)”
“ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO COMPEL ARBITRATION (filed 09/24/07)”
“ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT AS TO ALL PLAINTIFFS OUTSIDE THE NINTH CIRCUIT[;] DENYING DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT AS TO PLAINTIFFS IN THE NINTH CIRCUIT”
“AND GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART PLAINTIFFS' RENEWED MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ... CHRISTINA A. SNYDER, District Judge.”
“DEATH PENALTY CASE ORDER GRANTING IN PART PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS CHRISTINA A. SNYDER, District Judge.”
“ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT CHRISTINA A. SNYDER, District Judge.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The reviewed recent assignments are dominated by pending immigration-detainee habeas petitions and pro se filings. Reviewed cases filed in 2022 include civil-rights, prisoner civil-rights, habeas, and contract matters, several of which ended quickly through screening dismissals. Duration figures are limited to terminated cases in the reviewed set.
Put Judge Snyder's record to work
Ezel drafts and answers grounded in this exact profile: how Judge Snyder actually rules, not a generic AI guess.
Opens in Ezel Pro. Every answer is grounded in Judge Snyder's own signed orders and cites them.