Dolly Maizie Gee
How Judge Gee rules, drawn from 9 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
How Judge Gee decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Omission-based consumer-protection claims (CLRA/UCL) require a genuine, non-de-minimis safety hazard; minor injuries defeat materiality even at summary judgment.
“Having now reviewed the evidence in the light most favorable to Plaintiff, the Court finds this to be the case [that the injury was so de minimis as to not raise any safety concern].”
Scrutinizes piece-rate / incentive compensation plans by working concrete numerical hypotheticals; separates a plan's unlawful DESIGN from proof that violations actually occurred (a damages question).
“The hypothetical demonstrates that the PPP was designed in such a way that minimum wage violations could result. The parties have not asked the Court to decide at this juncture whether violations did in fact occur.”
Treats a consumer statute's fee-and-cost provision as substantive law that displaces the federal cost rules in a diversity case, reasoning that the legislature's choice to let prevailing buyers recover costs and expenses was meant to open the courts to consumers.
“In light of the foregoing, the Court GRANTS Plaintiff's Motion to Retax Costs.”
Procedural preferences
Enforces signed arbitration agreements on individual claims under the FAA / Concepcion, treating a motion to compel like summary judgment (facts viewed for the non-movant).
“Defendants’ motion to compel arbitration is GRANTED as to Plaintiffs individual claims.”
Resolves threshold-immunity defenses decisively at the pleading stage rather than deferring them: grants CDA 230 immunity on a motion to dismiss over an argument that the record is too 'scant' to decide it early.
“insofar as Aimco argues that it would be premature for the Court to decide the CDA preemption issue at this stage of the litigation, the Court rejects that argument.”
On a motion to dismiss, grants leave to amend where the identified defects look curable, rather than dismissing outright: pairing a partial dismissal with a short, dated deadline to replead.
“Because Plaintiffs may be able to cure the defects identified herein if given the chance to allege new or different facts, the Court GRANTS leave to amend.”
Applies the compelling-reasons standard to sealing requests and expects them to be narrowly tailored; grants the tailored portion and refuses the rest, and will seal a minor's sensitive medical information on its own motion.
“The Court concludes that Plaintiffs' request is narrowly tailored to seal only that material for which compelling reasons have been established and GRANTS the Application to Seal 416 .”
Cautions
Polices Rule 201 judicial-notice requests strictly: denied notice of agency one-on-one communications (hearsay / not public record) and of other courts' complaints (irrelevant).
“The Court DENIES United's requests for judicial notice for the reasons set forth below.”
Will say plainly that a requested extension lacks good cause and deny it on the merits, then still adjust the schedule because the opposing side agreed: the accommodation is not an endorsement of the request.
“Finding no good cause for the requested relief, the Court DENIES in part Defendants' EPA.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Having duly considered the parties’ written submissions and oral argument, the Court now GRANTS Defendant’s motion.”
“Defendants’ motion to compel arbitration of individual claims, and dismiss class and representative claims, is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part. Defendants’ motion to compel arbitration is GRANTED as to Plaintiffs individual claims.”
“For the reasons that follow, the motions are hereby granted in part and denied in part.”
“Having duly considered the parties' written submissions, the Court GRANTS Defendants' MSJ.”
“For the reasons set forth below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment and DENIES Defendant's cross-motion for summary judgment.”
“For the reasons set forth below, the motion to dismiss is GRANTED. In light of the Court's ruling on the motion to dismiss, the Court DENIES as moot the motion to strike, motion for preliminary injunction, and motion to expedite discovery.”
“For the reasons set forth below, Defendants' motion to dismiss is GRANTED and Defendants' motion to consolidate cases is DENIED as moot.”
“In light of the foregoing, Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction is GRANTED.”
“In light of the foregoing, the Court GRANTS Plaintiff's Motion to Retax Costs.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
- Judge Gee's 2026 calendar is heavily weighted toward immigration-detention habeas petitions under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, together with ADA access suits and prisoner habeas matters.
- The reviewed 2017-2018 terminations were mostly short procedural dispositions, including screening decisions, serial ADA filings, and habeas dismissals.
- Their durations measure the life of each case, not the time required to decide a contested motion.
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