Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha

How Judge Aenlle-Rocha rules, drawn from 3 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Court
United States District Court for the Central District of California
Position
district
Appointed by
Donald Trump (Republican)
Commissioned
2020-12-22
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Education
Princeton University (A.B., 1983); University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (J.D., 1986)
Signed orders read
3

How Judge Aenlle-Rocha decides

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

Procedural preferences

Once the federal claims drop out, declines to exercise supplemental jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 1367(c)(3) and remands the remaining state-law claims to state court.

“ORDER REMANDING ACTION TO LOS ANGELES SUPERIOR COURT by Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha. Having reviewed the parties' joint status report ... the court declines to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the remaining state law claims pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1367(c)(3) and REMANDS the action to the Los Angeles Superior Court without ruling on the Second Motion to Dismiss. ... Case Terminated. Made JS-6”

Denies a motion to dismiss as moot after the plaintiff files an amended complaint superseding the challenged pleading.

“MINUTES (IN CHAMBERS) by Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha: ORDER FOR THE PARTIES TO MEET AND CONFER RE PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO REMAND 9 AND DENYING DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS 7 AS MOOT. Plaintiff filed a First Amended Complaint, Dkt. 15, removing the 11th cause of action from the operative complaint.”

Signed rulings

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

Janice Fox v. Ultimate Action, LLC
2:21-cv-06422 · 2021-09-29
Motions to remand (plaintiff) Granted

“ORDER REMANDING ACTION TO LOS ANGELES SUPERIOR COURT by Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha. Having reviewed the parties' joint status report ... the court declines to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the remaining state law claims pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1367(c)(3) and REMANDS the action to the Los Angeles Superior Court without ruling on the Second Motion to Dismiss. ... Case Terminated. Made JS-6”

Janice Fox v. Ultimate Action, LLC
2:21-cv-06422 · 2021-09-01
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Moot / procedural

“MINUTES (IN CHAMBERS) by Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha: ORDER FOR THE PARTIES TO MEET AND CONFER RE PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO REMAND 9 AND DENYING DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS 7 AS MOOT. Plaintiff filed a First Amended Complaint, Dkt. 15, removing the 11th cause of action from the operative complaint.”

Saul Antonio Ramirez Orellana v. Markwayne Mullin
5:26-cv-03523 · 2026-07-10
Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted in part

“Accordingly, the court GRANTS the Petition as to Claim One, DISMISSES the remaining claims without prejudice, and ORDERS Respondents to release Petitioner Saul Antonio Ramirez Orellana (A# 246-061-835) unless he is provided, within seven (7) days of the docketing of this Order, an individualized bond hearing before an immigration judge under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a), at which the government will bear the burden to prove by clear and convincing evidence that Petitioner poses a flight risk or is a danger to the public.”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

Judge Aenlle-Rocha's reviewed civil docket is weighted toward sealed False Claims Act matters that end voluntarily after the United States declines to intervene, together with removed state-law cases that are remanded or settle. He also carries a federal criminal calendar, and his 2026 intake includes the district's increase in immigration-detention habeas petitions.

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