CLE

Case Insights: CLE

The CLE immigration court, based in , , has processed 56,896 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 42,755 resulted in relief granted (75.1%), 220 were denied (0.4%), and 13,921 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (24.5%). The court has 20 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 CLE rose by 20.6 percentage points, moving from 64.3% to 84.9%. 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 DCW has the largest recorded caseload at 6,660 decisions (73.3% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 69.5 percentage points — PKB at 90.8% versus GRB at 21.3%. 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.