Fernando Manzano Olguin

United States District Court for the Central District of California district Appointed by Barack Obama (Democratic) 2 signed orders read

How Judge Olguin decides

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

What persuades

Treats the 2014 California Labor Code amendments (§ 244(a)) as having eliminated administrative-exhaustion prerequisites (including UC internal exhaustion) for whistleblower § 1102.5 claims, displacing the older Campbell rule.

“Based on the foregoing, IT IS ORDERED THAT, defendant's Motion to Dismiss (Document No. 12) is denied.”

Procedural preferences

Decides motions on the papers without oral argument under L.R. 7-15 where argument is unnecessary.

“the court finds that oral argument is not necessary to resolve the Motion, see Fed. R. Civ. P. 78; Local Rule 7-15”

Cautions

Strict Fourth-Amendment exigency analysis -- a warrantless home entry is presumptively unconstitutional absent true exigent circumstances, and a mere belief that drugs 'potentially' would be destroyed does not suffice even with probable cause.

“Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (Document No. 53) is granted in part as to his claim of unlawful entry in violation of the Fourth Amendment.”

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.

Summary judgment
N = 2
Granted in part: 2 counts only
Motions to dismiss
N = 1
Denied: 1 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.

Neushul v. Regents of the University of California
2:15-cv-06539 · 2016-03-11
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Denied

“Based on the foregoing, IT IS ORDERED THAT, defendant's Motion to Dismiss (Document No. 12) is denied.”

Goodin v. City of Glendora
2:17-cv-00234 · 2019-03-18
Summary judgment (plaintiff) Granted in part

“Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (Document No. 53) is granted in part as to his claim of unlawful entry in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The Motion is denied in all other respects.”

Summary judgment (defendant) Granted in part

“Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment (Document No. 53) is granted in part as to plaintiff's claim pursuant to Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs., 436 U.S. 658... The Motion is denied in all other respects.”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

Not enumerated (assigned_judge string unresolved).