# Same law, different courtroom: 59% of asylum cases granted in Sacramento, 0.6% in Baton Rouge

Published 2026-11-07 · By Pushbuild · Data: [US Immigration Court Outcomes API – Asylum Grant Rates by Judge and Court](https://pushbuild.com/apis/immigration-court-outcomes.html)

**59%**Same law, different courtroom · as of 2026-11-07

**In fiscal 2025-26, Sacramento's immigration court granted 59.2% of decided asylum cases and Houston's 3.1% (549 grants, 17,431 denials).** 4 judges with 300+ decisions granted none.

## By court (1,000+ decisions)

| Court | Granted | Denied | Grant rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Baton Rouge | 10 | 1,795 | 0.6% |
| Omaha | 42 | 2,740 | 1.5% |
| Atlanta | 175 | 5,417 | 3.1% |
| Houston | 549 | 17,431 | 3.1% |
| Conroe | 71 | 1,619 | 4.2% |
| Cleveland | 191 | 4,221 | 4.3% |
| Chelmsford | 964 | 2,344 | 29.1% |
| Boston | 1,697 | 3,617 | 31.9% |
| Otay Mesa | 405 | 819 | 33.1% |
| Las Vegas | 591 | 937 | 38.7% |
| San Francisco | 2,805 | 3,717 | 43.0% |
| Sacramento | 1,348 | 928 | 59.2% |

## Judges at the extremes (300+ decisions)

| Judge | Court | Granted | Denied | Rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chen, Shuting | San Francisco | 265 | 102 | 72.2% |
| Adams, Lori | New York | 212 | 101 | 67.7% |
| Gordon, Louis A. | San Francisco | 213 | 156 | 57.7% |
| Badrinath, Vikram | Sacramento | 270 | 208 | 56.5% |
| Burman, Lawrence O. | Annandale | 168 | 142 | 54.2% |
| Gover, Erin | Boston | 352 | 304 | 53.7% |
| Wang, Lynn | Houston | 1 | 410 | 0.2% |
| Burns, John | New York | 2 | 1084 | 0.2% |
| Pobjecky, Artie | Houston | 0 | 366 | 0.0% |
| Garten, Danielle H. | Houston | 0 | 327 | 0.0% |
| Holliday, Carey R. | Baton Rouge | 0 | 710 | 0.0% |
| Nazaire, Karen | Newark | 0 | 478 | 0.0% |

## Caveats

Courts hear different mixes of nationalities and detained cases, which explains part of the gap.

## Sources

- [Executive Office for Immigration Review, FOIA library](https://www.justice.gov/eoir/foia-library-0), read through the Pushbuild [US Immigration Court Outcomes API](https://pushbuild.com/apis/immigration-court-outcomes.html) on 2026-11-07

Data as of 2026-11-07. Every figure in this post is in the table above and the CSV below.

Download the data behind this post: [b2-asylum-grant-rate-by-court-fy25-26.csv](https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/data/b2-asylum-grant-rate-by-court-fy25-26.csv) · [b2-asylum-grant-rate-by-judge-fy25-26.csv](https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/data/b2-asylum-grant-rate-by-judge-fy25-26.csv)

## Get this data

Every number in this post comes from the [US Immigration Court Outcomes API – Asylum Grant Rates by Judge and Court](https://pushbuild.com/apis/immigration-court-outcomes.html). $0.0016 per row returned; every key gets $1 of free usage each month.

```
curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/immigration-court-outcomes/run \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"groupBy": ["fiscalYear", "court"], "application": "asylum", "fiscalYearFrom": 2025, "maxItems": 20}'
```

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As of 2026-11-07. Source: https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/asylum-grant-rate-by-court-and-judge/