Daniel S. Roberts
How Judge Roberts decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In 2241 immigration habeas he leans heavily on the respondents' litigation posture: where the government declines to oppose or to dispute the petition's facts, he treats those facts as conceded under C.D. Cal. Local Rule 7-12 and grants relief, and he waives the prudential exhaustion requirement where the government does not raise it.
“Respondents had the opportunity to dispute the facts alleged in the Petition, but declined to do so. ... Accordingly, the facts alleged in the Petition are undisputed and have been conceded by Respondents. See C.D. Cal. L.R. 7-12.”
Procedural preferences
He tailors the habeas remedy to the defect: outright immediate release where re-detention itself violated due process (Ahuacama), but the narrower remedy of an individualized 8 U.S.C. 1226(a) bond hearing before an Immigration Judge where the claim is procedural (Mao). Where venue is contested he will transfer rather than dismiss (Marquez).
“within seven days of the date of this Order, Respondents must provide Petitioner an individualized bond hearing, pursuant to 8 U.S.C. 1226(a) before an Immigration Judge.”
Motion outcomes
Counted from classified signed orders only. Percentages are shown only where the sample is large enough to be meaningful; smaller samples are reported as raw counts.
| Habeas petition N = 2 |
Granted: 2 | counts only |
A "1 of 1" is one ruling, not a tendency. Treat small samples as illustrative, not predictive.
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“For the reasons discussed below, the Court GRANTS the Petition and issues a Writ of Habeas Corpus ordering Petitioner's immediate release from immigration custody.”
“ORDER GRANTING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS by Magistrate Judge Daniel S. Roberts, re Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus 1 . The Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus therefore is GRANTED. IT IS ORDERED THAT within seven days of the date of this Order, Respondents must provide Petitioner an individualized bond hearing, pursuant to 8 U.S.C. 1226(a) before an Immigration Judge.”
“ORDER TRANSFERRING ACTION TO THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA by Magistrate Judge Daniel S. Roberts. See document for details. ... (MD JS-6. Case Terminated.)”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 10 days (N = 3).
Median motion-to-ruling time: 10 days (N = 3).
search_dockets(assigned_judge='Daniel S. Roberts') is ENTIRELY the 2026 alien-detainee 28:2241 habeas surge (nature_of_suit 463, Adelanto ICE Processing Center / Desert View, Riverside/San Bernardino), filed March-June 2026. Most are still pending; a handful are decided fast on GO 26-05 consent with Roberts as judge of record (groundable outcomes + latency). Although his appointment is to the Western Division (Los Angeles), his assigned docket is the Eastern Division (Riverside, 5:xx-cv) alien-detainee surge. No civil/MJDAP direct-assignment merits dockets surfaced yet. docket records case-law hits for 'Daniel S. Roberts' are all OTHER (older) cacd judges -- no name-trap of his own pre-bench appearances surfaced.