Laura D. Hatcher
How Judge Hatcher decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Cautions
Hatcher is a brand-new MAGISTRATE JUDGE (sworn 2023-04-28) and a NAME TRAP: most pre-2023 GovInfo hits for 'Laura D. Hatcher' are her prior appearances as an Assistant U.S. Attorney / Chief of the Civil Division (government counsel), not judicial rulings. Only orders signed 'Judge Laura D. Hatcher' from 2023 onward are hers as a judge. On REFERRED matters her Reports & Recommendations are RECOMMENDATIONS subject to de novo review on objection -- confirm the district judge's adoption/modification before relying on a recommended outcome (e.g. in Bellinger, Andrews adopted the R&R in part and rejected its reasoning in part). Only her 636(c) CONSENT-case orders are final.
“Before her appointment, Magistrate Judge Hatcher served as the chief of the civil division of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Delaware.”
Several of Hatcher's GovInfo R&R PDFs are image-only scans (no OCR text layer), so order-body grounding can fail. Where the PDF is image-only, the outcome here was grounded from the GovInfo content-detail catalog string (confidence medium) or from the district judge's adoption opinion (confidence high). Re-verify these on deepen as text-layer copies appear.
“REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION granting-in-part and denying-in-part Defendants' Motion to Dismiss (DI 8).”
Motion outcomes
Counted from classified signed orders only. Percentages are shown only where the sample is large enough to be meaningful; smaller samples are reported as raw counts.
| Motions to dismiss N = 2 |
Granted: 1Granted in part: 1 | counts only |
A "1 of 1" is one ruling, not a tendency. Treat small samples as illustrative, not predictive.
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“I will adopt the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation with respect to Counts I and II of the Complaint. I will reject-in-part the Report and Recommendation with respect to Counts III and IV. I therefore GRANT Defendants' motions to dismiss. Dismissal is without prejudice.”
“REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION granting-in-part and denying-in-part Defendants' Motion to Dismiss (DI 8). ... Signed by Judge Laura D. Hatcher on 11/2/23.”