Wesley L. Hsu
How Judge Hsu decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In an Endangered Species Act challenge, grants the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment, sets aside the agency finding as arbitrary and capricious, and remands for reconsideration.
“ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT [24] AND DENYING DEFENDANTS' CROSS MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT [27] ... For the reasons explained below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment and DENIES Defendants' Cross Motion for Summary Judgment.”
Treats incorporation of the American Arbitration Association rules as clear delegation of gateway arbitrability questions even when a party argues that the agreement is unsophisticated or adhesive.
“The Court agrees with the numerous courts in this district and similarly holds that the incorporation of the AAA constitutes clear and unmistakable evidence that the parties agreed to delegate gateway questions of arbitrability regardless of the sophistication of the parties.”
In a securities pleading, requires concrete allegations of both a domestic transaction and a materially misleading statement before allowing a Section 10(b) claim to proceed.
“As discussed above, Plaintiffs have failed to allege a domestic transaction and have failed to allege ‘a material misrepresentation or omission’ by Defendants sufficient to support a Section 10(b) claim.”
Procedural preferences
Declines to interrupt an ongoing state prosecution when the petitioner can raise constitutional issues in the state case or on ordinary appellate review.
“Petitioner has not convincingly established that she lacks the opportunity to raise her constitutional claims in her ongoing state criminal case or on appeal, as in the normal course of criminal litigation.”
Requires a federal pretrial detainee to litigate indictment and detention challenges through the criminal case and the Bail Reform Act rather than a parallel habeas action.
“Funneling requests for pretrial relief through the criminal action encourages an orderly, efficient resolution of the issues, maintains respect for the appellate process, and prevents duplication of judicial work and judge-shopping.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT [24] AND DENYING DEFENDANTS' CROSS MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT [27] ... For the reasons explained below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment and DENIES Defendants' Cross Motion for Summary Judgment.”
“the Court GRANTS Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment and DENIES Defendants' Cross Motion for Summary Judgment. ... The Court SETS ASIDE the Service's 12-Month Finding as arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to the ESA, and REMANDS to the Service for reconsideration pursuant to the above.”
“Based on the foregoing discussion, Defendants Motion is GRANTED and the action is STAYED pending the arbitration proceedings.”
“As discussed above, Plaintiffs have failed to allege a domestic transaction and have failed to allege ‘a material misrepresentation or omission’ by Defendants sufficient to support a Section 10(b) claim. The Court therefore need not address the other five elements of such a claim, see II, supra, and the Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED with leave to amend. Plaintiffs have 45 days from the date of this Order to amend.”
“Therefore, the present action is hereby DISMISSED without prejudice.”
“The Petition is dismissed without prejudice to filing an appropriate challenge in his criminal case.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Young docket (commissioned May 2023): dominated by a 2026 immigration-detention habeas surge (petitions tied to the Adelanto detention facility) alongside 2024 disability-access (ADA Title III), consumer-credit (FCRA), trademark, contract, immigration-mandamus, and employment cases, plus a federal criminal calendar. Most civil cases settle, voluntarily dismiss, or resolve administratively. Durations below are filed-to-terminated for terminated cases in the sample; the environmental Administrative Procedure Act case is the one contested merits resolution.
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