Sherilyn Peace Garnett

United States District Court for the Central District of California district Appointed by Joe Biden (Democratic) 2 signed orders read

How Judge Garnett decides

Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

What persuades

Grants a motion in limine to exclude lay-witness testimony on causation, an issue reserved for competent proof.

“ORDER RE LAY WITNESS TESTIMONY OF STATE FARM WITNESSES (1) YENNY URQUILLA AND (2) DONNA BLAZEWICH by Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs motion in limine to exclude the testimony of Mses. Yenny Urquilla and Donna Blazewich as it pertains to causation 46.”

Procedural preferences

Denies a plaintiff's motion to remand and retains the case in federal court.

“ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO REMAND 17 by Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett. The Court DENIES Plaintiff's Motion to Remand.”

Signed rulings

A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.

Alexandro Garcia v. Lemonade Insurance Company
2:24-cv-01566 · 2024-04-30
Motions to remand (plaintiff) Denied

“ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO REMAND 17 by Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett. The Court DENIES Plaintiff's Motion to Remand.”

Saul Gershkowitz v. State Farm General Insurance Company
2:21-cv-01655 · 2022-08-26
Motion in limine (plaintiff) Granted

“ORDER RE LAY WITNESS TESTIMONY OF STATE FARM WITNESSES (1) YENNY URQUILLA AND (2) DONNA BLAZEWICH by Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs motion in limine to exclude the testimony of Mses. Yenny Urquilla and Donna Blazewich as it pertains to causation 46.”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

Mixed Los Angeles (Western Division) civil docket plus a criminal calendar: insurance bad-faith, employment and civil-rights jobs, copyright (often voluntarily dismissed or settled), Section 1983 civil-rights, habeas, and personal-injury cases. It includes the Gina Carano v. The Walt Disney Company employment suit, which terminated on 2025-08-07 after about 548 days in a settlement. Durations below are filed-to-terminated for terminated cases in the sample.

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