Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong
How Judge Frimpong rules, drawn from 3 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
How Judge Frimpong decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Grants ex parte applications for a temporary restraining order and order to show cause where the plaintiffs establish grounds for emergency relief.
“Before the Court are two Ex Parte Applications for Temporary Restraining Order and Order to Show Cause Regarding Preliminary Injunction filed by Plaintiffs. ECF Nos. 38, 45. For the reasons stated herein, the Court GRANTS the Ex Parte Applications.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Before the Court are two Ex Parte Applications for Temporary Restraining Order and Order to Show Cause Regarding Preliminary Injunction filed by Plaintiffs. ECF Nos. 38, 45. For the reasons stated herein, the Court GRANTS the Ex Parte Applications.”
Text-only sua sponte order. After issuing an order to show cause on March 27, 2023 asking why she should exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the paired California Unruh Civil Rights Act claim in this ADA-access suit, including whether the plaintiff was a 'high-frequency litigant' under Cal. Civ. Proc. Code Section 425.55(b), and receiving no response, Frimpong declined supplemental jurisdiction and dismissed the Unruh claim without prejudice. She issued the same order to show cause in Larry Dunn v. Edmond Hagooli, Inc. (2:23-cv-00904), indicating a recurring practice relevant to ADA and Unruh Act plaintiffs. This was a court-initiated jurisdictional decision, not a ruling on a party motion.
“IT IS ORDERED that: (1) the Petition is GRANTED; (2) Respondents shall immediately release Petitioner from custody unless Respondents have provided Petitioner with a bond hearing under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a); and (3) Respondents shall file a notice of compliance advising how they complied with this Order within one day.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
- Based on a sample of her docket.
- Her caseload mixes (a) ADA Title III / California Unruh Act access suits (often subjected to her sua sponte supplemental-jurisdiction OSC), (b) False Claims Act qui tam cases (frequently terminated by relator voluntary dismissal in omnibus orders), (c) 2025 alien-detainee immigration habeas/civil-rights matters (Perdomo; Ruiz Yarleque), (d) consumer/lemon-law contract (BMW), and (e) a long-running RLUIPA/fair-housing accommodations case (Insight Psychology v. City of Costa Mesa, reassigned from Judge Selna, terminated 2025-11-24 after ~2083 days).
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