Immigration Judge LEM

Case Insights: Judge LEM

Immigration Judge LEM has issued 1,376 recorded decisions at the POO in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those decisions, 393 resulted in relief granted (28.6%), 4 were denied (0.3%), and 979 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (71.1%). That volume places Judge LEM among a moderate docket at the POO.

The gap between the grant rate and the denial rate is 28.3 percentage points, which categorizes this judge's outcome pattern as denial-leaning relative to national EOIR norms. Because every case before an immigration judge depends on nationality, relief type, representation status, and country conditions, these aggregate rates are not a predictor of any single future decision. TRAC Immigration and DOJ EOIR both caution readers to interpret judge-level rates as descriptive rather than prescriptive statistics.

The POO itself has multiple judges whose grant rates can vary widely, so the best way to contextualize Judge LEM's numbers is to compare against court-wide figures and against peers on the same bench. The court page for POO lists all sitting judges and their recorded outcome rates, making side-by-side comparison of caseloads and grant percentages straightforward for researchers, attorneys, and respondents.