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    • Fernando M. Olguin

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    District Judge
    USDC Central District of California
    Western Division / First Street Federal Courthouse
    Days: M-F Courtroom/Floor: 6D

    350 W 1st St #4311
    Los Angeles , CA 90012-4565
    (213) 894-8477





    Judicial Profiles
    Title Court Published
    Fernando M. Olguin Central District (Los Angeles) Jul. 7, 2013

    Rulings
    Case Category Published
    Amended Opinion: Lytle v. Nutramax Laboratories,Inc.
    affirmed
    		 Civil Procedure Aug. 23, 2024
    Lytle v. Nutramax Laboratories,Inc.
    affirmed
    		 Civil Procedure Apr. 22, 2024
    Elden v. Nirvana LLC
    reversed and remanded
    		 Civil Procedure Dec. 21, 2023
    Winkler v. McCloskey
    reversed and remanded
    		 Arbitration Sep. 28, 2023
    Nguyen v. Frauenheim
    affirmed
    		 Criminal Law and Procedure Aug. 22, 2022
    DePuy Synthes Sales v. Howmedica Osteonics
    affirmed
    		 Employment Law Mar. 15, 2022
    Saldana v. Glenhaven Healthcare
    affirmed
    		 Civil Procedure Feb. 23, 2022
    Kalbers v. Volkswagen AG
    reversed and remanded
    		 Government Dec. 29, 2021
    Chambers v. Whirlpool Corp.
    vacated and remanded
    		 Civil Procedure Nov. 11, 2020
    Amended Opinion: Pimentel v. City of Los Angeles
    affirmed in part
    		 Civil Rights Sep. 14, 2020
    Abcarian v. Levine
    affirmed
    		 Criminal Law and Procedure Aug. 26, 2020
    Castillo v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
    affirmed
    		 statutory_interpretation Aug. 18, 2020
    Pimentel v. City of Los Angeles
    affirmed in part
    		 Civil Rights Jul. 23, 2020
    City of Almaty v. Khrapunov
    affirmed
    		 Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 23, 2020
    U.S. v. Phillips
    affirmed
    		 Criminal Law and Procedure Jul. 12, 2019
    U.S. v. Guerrero
    affirmed
    		 Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 23, 2019
    Foster v. Hellawell
    dismissed
    		 Civil Rights Nov. 21, 2018
    Amended Opinion: U.S. ex rel. Silingo v. Wellpoint
    affirmed in part
    		 Health Care Sep. 12, 2018
    U.S. ex rel. Silingo v. Wellpoint
    affirmed in part
    		 Health Care Jul. 10, 2018
    Shafer v. Padilla
    reversed
    		 Civil Rights Aug. 30, 2017

    Verdicts & Settlements
    Case Name Topic Role Published
    Jessica Tapia v. Jurupa Unified School District Civil Rights judge Aug. 30, 2024
    Geoff Winkler v. Charles R. Grimm; Blue Pacific Bio-Energy Inc.; Grimm Investments LLC, and Does 1-10, inclusive Fraud judge Aug. 9, 2024
    Vidal Madera, Idali Pagan v. Ford Motor Company, and Does 1 through 10, inclusive Consumer Law judge May 24, 2024
    United States of America v. Response Tree LLC, Derek Thomas Doherty, individually and as an officer of Response Tree LLC Consumer Law judge Apr. 19, 2024
    United States of America, People of the State of California, ex rel, California Department of Fish and Wildlife and California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Coast Region v. HVI Cat Canyon Inc. f/k/a Greka Oil & Gas Inc. Environmental Law judge Feb. 16, 2024
    Tammy Murillo, an individual and as successor in interest to Jesse Murillo, deceased v. City of Los Angeles, Fred Sigman, Christopher Montague Civil Rights judge Nov. 17, 2023
    I.M., a minor, by and through her Guardian ad Litem, Edward Tapia, Edward Tapia, Cheryl Tapia-Rufener, and Brianna Palomino, individually and as Successors-In-Interest to Decedent, Edward Bronstein v. Doe CHP Officers 1-10 Civil Rights judge Sep. 15, 2023
    Los Angeles Waterkeeper v. Prime Plating Aerospace Inc. dba Prime Plating and Schmidt Industries Inc., dba Prime Plating Environmental Law judge Apr. 7, 2023
    Sharon Britt, Andre Wall, Joshua Blalock and Jade Ball, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Southern California Edison Company, and Does 1 through 25 Employment Law judge Mar. 3, 2023
    In Re: Monsanto Class Action Settlement Environmental Law judge Nov. 4, 2022
    Anurag Gupta and by and through him, D.G. and V.G., his minor children, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Aeries Software Inc. Torts judge Nov. 4, 2022
    In re: Inogen Inc. Securities Litigation Securities judge Nov. 4, 2022
    Spencer Elden v. Nirvana LLC, Universal Music Group Inc., The David Geffen Company, Geffen Records, Kirk Weddle, Kurt Cobain, deceased, Courtney Love, as executor of the Estate of Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, and David Grohl, Torts judge Oct. 7, 2022
    Doug Miner, et al., individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Ecolab Inc. Employment Law judge Sep. 30, 2022
    Jamal Johnson, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Moss Bros. Auto Group Inc., et al. Consumer Law judge Aug. 26, 2022
    Reggie DeAndre Mallard v. County of Los Angeles Civil Rights judge Jun. 17, 2022
    Cory Longo, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Osi Systems Inc., Deepak Chopra, Alan Edrick, Ajay Mehra Securities judge Feb. 25, 2022
    Moises Negrete, et al. v. Conagra Foods Inc., et al. Employment Law judge Jan. 14, 2022
    Andrew Trampe, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. CD Projekt S.A., Adam Michal Kicinski, Piotr Marcin Nielubowicz, Michal Nowakowski Securities judge Jan. 14, 2022
    Noah Kirk v. Los Angeles County, Joe Dempsey, Eric Parra, Gina Parra, Christy Guyovich, Johann Thrall, Gabe Ramirez, Milton Murphey, Brandon Lefevre, John Kepley, Joel Barnett, Patrick Valdez, Yvonne O'Brien, Jessica Tend, and Does 1-200 Civil Rights judge Nov. 19, 2021
    Estate of Anthony Soderberg, decedent; Shirly Soderberg, an individual v. Los Angeles Police Department, and Does 1 through 50, inclusive Civil Rights judge May 7, 2021
    Federal Trade Commission v. Moda Latina BZ Inc., Esther Virginia Fernandez Aguirre, individually and as an officer of Moda Latina BZ Inc., Marco Cesar Zarate Quiroz, individually and as an officer of Moda Latina BZ Inc. Consumer Law judge Mar. 26, 2021
    Sheila Mayfield, and D.C.M., a minor v. County of Los Angeles by and through The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services; Stephanie Carpenter, an individual; and Does 1 through 200, inclusive Civil Rights judge Nov. 20, 2020
    Roland Vaughan v. County of Los Angeles, and Does 1 through 50, inclusive Civil Rights judge Oct. 30, 2020
    Robert G. Lindsey and Charles G. Rodriguez v. The County of Los Angeles; Paul Tanaka; Kevin Stennis; and Does 1-10, Inclusive Civil Rights judge Oct. 30, 2020
    Brent Anderson, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated v. The Sherwin-Williams Company and Does 1 to 100, inclusive Employment Law judge Jul. 10, 2020
    Miguel Angel Serrano Castillo, an individual and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Sheraton Operating Corporation, and Does 1 through 100, inclusive Labor Law judge May 15, 2020
    Jesse Andrew Arredondo v. W. L. Montgomery Civil Rights judge May 8, 2020
    Jahanshah Shouhed, an individual v. Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company; Penegon West, Inc., A California Corporation d/b/a Hornburg Jaguar Land Rover; and Does 1 to 25, inclusive Consumer Law judge May 1, 2020
    Joseph Carrington v. Robert Neuschmid Constitutional Law judge May 1, 2020
    Leonardo Gonzalez-Tzita, an individual; Esteban Diego Esteban, an individual, Sidonio Lomeli, an individual and all as class representatives v. City of Los Angeles, a municipal corporation; Los Angeles Police Department, a public entity; Chief Charlie Beck, individually and in his official capacity; LAPD Officer Lee (#34792), individually and in his official capacity as Doe 1; LAPD Officer Reyez (#36912), individually and in her official capacity as Doe 2; LAPD Officer Vanegas (#39073), individually and in his official capacity as Doe 3, and Does 4 through 10 Civil Rights judge Apr. 10, 2020
    Moodie v. Maxim Healthcare Services Inc. Consumer Law judge May 24, 2019
    V.W., a minor, by and through her Guardian ad Litem, Mattie Johnson; Demetra Johnson; John Weber v. County of Los Angeles, and Does 1-10, inclusive Civil Rights judge May 24, 2019
    In re Ridgecrest Healthcare Inc., Debtor; California Department of Health Care Services v. Howard M. Ehrenberg, as Chapter 7 Trustee Bankruptcy judge May 17, 2019
    Arthur Kaye IRA FCC as Custodian DTD 6-8-00, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Immunocellular Therapeutics Ltd., David Fractor, John S. Yu, Andrew Gengos, Manish Singh, Lavos LLC, Lidingo Holdings LLC, Kamilla Bjorlin, Andrew Hodge, Brian Nichols, and Vincent Cassano Securities judge Jan. 11, 2019
    Elijah Bey v. Mosaic Sales Solutions US Operating Co., LLC et al. Employment Law judge Jan. 4, 2019
    Clinton D. Alford Jr. v. Los Angeles Police Department Chief Beck, et al. Civil Rights judge Aug. 18, 2017
    Sergio Pina v. City of Los Angeles, et al. Civil Rights judge Aug. 18, 2017
    Joan Stevenson v. Huntington Memorial Hospital Contracts Plaintiff Sep. 23, 2000
    Confidential Employment Law Plaintiff Jul. 8, 2000
    Title Court Published
    Fernando M. Olguin Central District (Los Angeles) Jul. 7, 2013
    Case Category Published
    Amended Opinion: Lytle v. Nutramax Laboratories,Inc.
    affirmed
    		 Civil Procedure Aug. 23, 2024
    Lytle v. Nutramax Laboratories,Inc.
    affirmed
    		 Civil Procedure Apr. 22, 2024
    Elden v. Nirvana LLC
    reversed and remanded
    		 Civil Procedure Dec. 21, 2023
    Winkler v. McCloskey
    reversed and remanded
    		 Arbitration Sep. 28, 2023
    Nguyen v. Frauenheim
    affirmed
    		 Criminal Law and Procedure Aug. 22, 2022
    DePuy Synthes Sales v. Howmedica Osteonics
    affirmed
    		 Employment Law Mar. 15, 2022
    Saldana v. Glenhaven Healthcare
    affirmed
    		 Civil Procedure Feb. 23, 2022
    Kalbers v. Volkswagen AG
    reversed and remanded
    		 Government Dec. 29, 2021
    Chambers v. Whirlpool Corp.
    vacated and remanded
    		 Civil Procedure Nov. 11, 2020
    Amended Opinion: Pimentel v. City of Los Angeles
    affirmed in part
    		 Civil Rights Sep. 14, 2020
    Abcarian v. Levine
    affirmed
    		 Criminal Law and Procedure Aug. 26, 2020
    Castillo v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
    affirmed
    		 statutory_interpretation Aug. 18, 2020
    Pimentel v. City of Los Angeles
    affirmed in part
    		 Civil Rights Jul. 23, 2020
    City of Almaty v. Khrapunov
    affirmed
    		 Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 23, 2020
    U.S. v. Phillips
    affirmed
    		 Criminal Law and Procedure Jul. 12, 2019
    U.S. v. Guerrero
    affirmed
    		 Criminal Law and Procedure Apr. 23, 2019
    Foster v. Hellawell
    dismissed
    		 Civil Rights Nov. 21, 2018
    Amended Opinion: U.S. ex rel. Silingo v. Wellpoint
    affirmed in part
    		 Health Care Sep. 12, 2018
    U.S. ex rel. Silingo v. Wellpoint
    affirmed in part
    		 Health Care Jul. 10, 2018
    Shafer v. Padilla
    reversed
    		 Civil Rights Aug. 30, 2017
    Case Name Topic Role Published
    Jessica Tapia v. Jurupa Unified School District Civil Rights judge Aug. 30, 2024
    Geoff Winkler v. Charles R. Grimm; Blue Pacific Bio-Energy Inc.; Grimm Investments LLC, and Does 1-10, inclusive Fraud judge Aug. 9, 2024
    Vidal Madera, Idali Pagan v. Ford Motor Company, and Does 1 through 10, inclusive Consumer Law judge May 24, 2024
    United States of America v. Response Tree LLC, Derek Thomas Doherty, individually and as an officer of Response Tree LLC Consumer Law judge Apr. 19, 2024
    United States of America, People of the State of California, ex rel, California Department of Fish and Wildlife and California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Coast Region v. HVI Cat Canyon Inc. f/k/a Greka Oil & Gas Inc. Environmental Law judge Feb. 16, 2024
    Tammy Murillo, an individual and as successor in interest to Jesse Murillo, deceased v. City of Los Angeles, Fred Sigman, Christopher Montague Civil Rights judge Nov. 17, 2023
    I.M., a minor, by and through her Guardian ad Litem, Edward Tapia, Edward Tapia, Cheryl Tapia-Rufener, and Brianna Palomino, individually and as Successors-In-Interest to Decedent, Edward Bronstein v. Doe CHP Officers 1-10 Civil Rights judge Sep. 15, 2023
    Los Angeles Waterkeeper v. Prime Plating Aerospace Inc. dba Prime Plating and Schmidt Industries Inc., dba Prime Plating Environmental Law judge Apr. 7, 2023
    Sharon Britt, Andre Wall, Joshua Blalock and Jade Ball, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Southern California Edison Company, and Does 1 through 25 Employment Law judge Mar. 3, 2023
    In Re: Monsanto Class Action Settlement Environmental Law judge Nov. 4, 2022
    Anurag Gupta and by and through him, D.G. and V.G., his minor children, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Aeries Software Inc. Torts judge Nov. 4, 2022
    In re: Inogen Inc. Securities Litigation Securities judge Nov. 4, 2022
    Spencer Elden v. Nirvana LLC, Universal Music Group Inc., The David Geffen Company, Geffen Records, Kirk Weddle, Kurt Cobain, deceased, Courtney Love, as executor of the Estate of Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, and David Grohl, Torts judge Oct. 7, 2022
    Doug Miner, et al., individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Ecolab Inc. Employment Law judge Sep. 30, 2022
    Jamal Johnson, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Moss Bros. Auto Group Inc., et al. Consumer Law judge Aug. 26, 2022
    Reggie DeAndre Mallard v. County of Los Angeles Civil Rights judge Jun. 17, 2022
    Cory Longo, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Osi Systems Inc., Deepak Chopra, Alan Edrick, Ajay Mehra Securities judge Feb. 25, 2022
    Moises Negrete, et al. v. Conagra Foods Inc., et al. Employment Law judge Jan. 14, 2022
    Andrew Trampe, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. CD Projekt S.A., Adam Michal Kicinski, Piotr Marcin Nielubowicz, Michal Nowakowski Securities judge Jan. 14, 2022
    Noah Kirk v. Los Angeles County, Joe Dempsey, Eric Parra, Gina Parra, Christy Guyovich, Johann Thrall, Gabe Ramirez, Milton Murphey, Brandon Lefevre, John Kepley, Joel Barnett, Patrick Valdez, Yvonne O'Brien, Jessica Tend, and Does 1-200 Civil Rights judge Nov. 19, 2021
    Estate of Anthony Soderberg, decedent; Shirly Soderberg, an individual v. Los Angeles Police Department, and Does 1 through 50, inclusive Civil Rights judge May 7, 2021
    Federal Trade Commission v. Moda Latina BZ Inc., Esther Virginia Fernandez Aguirre, individually and as an officer of Moda Latina BZ Inc., Marco Cesar Zarate Quiroz, individually and as an officer of Moda Latina BZ Inc. Consumer Law judge Mar. 26, 2021
    Sheila Mayfield, and D.C.M., a minor v. County of Los Angeles by and through The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services; Stephanie Carpenter, an individual; and Does 1 through 200, inclusive Civil Rights judge Nov. 20, 2020
    Roland Vaughan v. County of Los Angeles, and Does 1 through 50, inclusive Civil Rights judge Oct. 30, 2020
    Robert G. Lindsey and Charles G. Rodriguez v. The County of Los Angeles; Paul Tanaka; Kevin Stennis; and Does 1-10, Inclusive Civil Rights judge Oct. 30, 2020
    Brent Anderson, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated v. The Sherwin-Williams Company and Does 1 to 100, inclusive Employment Law judge Jul. 10, 2020
    Miguel Angel Serrano Castillo, an individual and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Sheraton Operating Corporation, and Does 1 through 100, inclusive Labor Law judge May 15, 2020
    Jesse Andrew Arredondo v. W. L. Montgomery Civil Rights judge May 8, 2020
    Jahanshah Shouhed, an individual v. Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company; Penegon West, Inc., A California Corporation d/b/a Hornburg Jaguar Land Rover; and Does 1 to 25, inclusive Consumer Law judge May 1, 2020
    Joseph Carrington v. Robert Neuschmid Constitutional Law judge May 1, 2020
    Leonardo Gonzalez-Tzita, an individual; Esteban Diego Esteban, an individual, Sidonio Lomeli, an individual and all as class representatives v. City of Los Angeles, a municipal corporation; Los Angeles Police Department, a public entity; Chief Charlie Beck, individually and in his official capacity; LAPD Officer Lee (#34792), individually and in his official capacity as Doe 1; LAPD Officer Reyez (#36912), individually and in her official capacity as Doe 2; LAPD Officer Vanegas (#39073), individually and in his official capacity as Doe 3, and Does 4 through 10 Civil Rights judge Apr. 10, 2020
    Moodie v. Maxim Healthcare Services Inc. Consumer Law judge May 24, 2019
    V.W., a minor, by and through her Guardian ad Litem, Mattie Johnson; Demetra Johnson; John Weber v. County of Los Angeles, and Does 1-10, inclusive Civil Rights judge May 24, 2019
    In re Ridgecrest Healthcare Inc., Debtor; California Department of Health Care Services v. Howard M. Ehrenberg, as Chapter 7 Trustee Bankruptcy judge May 17, 2019
    Arthur Kaye IRA FCC as Custodian DTD 6-8-00, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Immunocellular Therapeutics Ltd., David Fractor, John S. Yu, Andrew Gengos, Manish Singh, Lavos LLC, Lidingo Holdings LLC, Kamilla Bjorlin, Andrew Hodge, Brian Nichols, and Vincent Cassano Securities judge Jan. 11, 2019
    Elijah Bey v. Mosaic Sales Solutions US Operating Co., LLC et al. Employment Law judge Jan. 4, 2019
    Clinton D. Alford Jr. v. Los Angeles Police Department Chief Beck, et al. Civil Rights judge Aug. 18, 2017
    Sergio Pina v. City of Los Angeles, et al. Civil Rights judge Aug. 18, 2017
    Joan Stevenson v. Huntington Memorial Hospital Contracts Plaintiff Sep. 23, 2000
    Confidential Employment Law Plaintiff Jul. 8, 2000
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