Hernán D. Vera

How Judge Vera 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
Joe Biden (Democratic)
Commissioned
2023-06-15
ABA rating
Well Qualified
Education
Stanford University (B.A., with distinction, 1991); University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law (J.D., 1994)
Signed orders read
3

How Judge Vera decides

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

Procedural preferences

Denies a motion for reconsideration, holding the movant to the limited grounds for revisiting a prior order.

“ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION 24 by Judge Hernan D. Vera. For the reasons set forth above, Plaintiffs' Motion for for Reconsideration is denied.”

Cautions

Grants a defendant's motion to dismiss and terminates the case.

“ORDER RE: DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO DISMISS [DKT. NO. 12] by Judge Hernan D. Vera. For the reasons described above, Delta's Motion to Dismiss is granted. (MD JS-6. Case Terminated)”

Signed rulings

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

Eternada Fudge v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.
2:24-cv-04531 · 2024-10-04
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Granted

“ORDER RE: DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO DISMISS [DKT. NO. 12] by Judge Hernan D. Vera. For the reasons described above, Delta's Motion to Dismiss is granted. (MD JS-6. Case Terminated)”

Eternada Fudge v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.
2:24-cv-04531 · 2025-01-06
Motion for reconsideration (plaintiff) Denied

“ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION 24 by Judge Hernan D. Vera. For the reasons set forth above, Plaintiffs' Motion for for Reconsideration is denied.”

Harmanpreet Kaur Sidhu v. Warden Facility Administrator Adelanto ICE Processing Center
5:26-cv-04311 · 2026-08-12
Preliminary injunction (petitioner) Granted

“For the foregoing reasons, and for the reasons stated on the record at the hearing on August 10, 2026, the Court grants the preliminary injunction”

Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted

“the Court grants the preliminary injunction, and grants the petition for writ of habeas corpus for the same reasons.”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

  • Judge Vera's young docket includes sealed or pending False Claims Act suits, a federal criminal calendar, and consumer, contract, accessibility, and class-action matters that often settle, arbitrate, or transfer.
  • A growing 2026 immigration-detention habeas calendar produced a contested preliminary-injunction and habeas grant in the Sidhu matter.
  • Durations below are filed-to-termination intervals for the terminated cases in the sample.

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