Laurel Beeler
How Judge Beeler rules, drawn from 11 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
How Judge Beeler decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
An unopposed motion supported by a clean record is readily recommended for grant: where a patent defendant does not oppose a motion to amend infringement contentions, she will summarily recommend granting it without a full good-cause analysis.
“Where, as here, a defendant does not oppose a motion to amend ICs, ‘the Court need not determine whether [plaintiff] has shown good cause for amending its infringement contentions’ and may summarily grant the motion to amend.”
In a police-shooting case, she denied summary judgment on excessive-force, battery, and Bane Act claims where disputes remained about whether the plaintiff was complying with commands and whether the officer's use of force was reasonable; the same disputes prevented qualified immunity at the summary-judgment stage.
“Fact disputes preclude granting summary judgment on the Bane Act claim.”
Procedural preferences
On pro se screenings, Beeler tests threshold requirements (subject-matter jurisdiction, personal jurisdiction, venue) before reaching the merits, and will give a plaintiff repeated chances to amend before recommending dismissal, but recommends dismissal once amendment would be futile.
“The case should be dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction and venue, without prejudice to filing it in another forum. ... These issues would normally allow a final opportunity to amend, but would be futile due to the issues with venue and jurisdiction.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“On May 23, 2025, Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler issued a report and recommendation that the Court grant Plaintiff Pasha Hawaii Holdings LLC's motion for default judgment and enter judgment for Plaintiff in the amount of $74,288.20. ... No party has filed an objection, so the Court adopts Judge Beeler's report and recommendation and grants Pasha Hawaii Holdings' motion for default judgment.”
“the Report and Recommendation (‘Report’) prepared by Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler, in which she recommends that the Court grant Plaintiffs' motion to enforce the settlement agreement. ... The Court finds the Report thorough and well reasoned and adopts it in every respect. Accordingly, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' motion to enforce the settlement agreement.”
“The Court has reviewed Judge Laurel Beeler's Report and Recommendation Re: Screening Order and notes there are no objections to the Report. The Court adopts the Report in every respect. Accordingly, this case is dismissed with prejudice.”
“The case should be dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction and venue, without prejudice to filing it in another forum. ... The court directs the Clerk of Court to reassign the case to a district judge and recommends that the newly assigned district judge dismiss the case.”
“For the foregoing reasons, the undersigned recommends that the court grant Aavid's unopposed motion to amend its ICs.”
“The motion is granted. Among other grounds, the state claim against Ms. Ferrer is unrelated to the other claims, there is no supplemental jurisdiction, and the Government Claims Act bars the suit. The claim is dismissed without prejudice to reasserting it in state court, if the Claims Act bar can be overcome.”
“The court lacks supplemental jurisdiction over the Bane Act claim and otherwise denies the motion.”
“The court grants the TRO, postponing the effective date of EOIR’s recission until the court decides the motion for a preliminary injunction.”
“The case is remanded to the San Francisco Superior Court.”
“The defendants are entitled to summary judgment on the plaintiff’s negligence claims.”
“CelLink’s motion for leave to file a motion for reconsideration is denied.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The sample covers cases filed in 2022 and a separate group of pending 2026 matters. As an initially assigned San Francisco magistrate judge, Beeler handles employment and labor, employee-benefit collections, immigration, consumer, copyright, patent, civil-rights, foreign-sovereign, and criminal-magistrate matters. The durations measure filing to termination, not motion-to-ruling time.
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