ADL

Case Insights: ADL

The ADL immigration court, based in , , has processed 35,186 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 17,729 resulted in relief granted (50.4%), 689 were denied (2.0%), and 16,768 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (47.7%). The court has 32 immigration judges on record, whose individual caseloads and outcome patterns shape the court-wide averages shown above.

Between fiscal year 2015 and fiscal year 2025, the grant rate at ADL rose by 13.6 percentage points, moving from 56.2% to 69.8%. That window spans 11 fiscal years of reported data, covering shifts in bench composition, policy guidance, and nationality mix. The year-by-year table lower on this page shows the underlying annual case volume for every year in the series.

Outcomes vary substantially judge-to-judge. Judge ATL has the largest recorded caseload at 5,327 decisions (47.2% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 57.8 percentage points — RRH at 83.9% versus JTH at 26.1%. These differences reflect case mix, nationality assignments, and docket type rather than any single factor, and they are why EOIR cautions readers against treating any judge's rate as predictive of an individual case.