Anthony E. Porcelli
How Judge Porcelli decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Brand-vs-generic pharmaceutical liability: follows the majority / Florida rule that a brand-name (Reference Listed Drug) manufacturer owes no duty to a plaintiff injured by a competitor's generic version it never made or sold; expressly declines to follow California's pro-plaintiff Conte v. Wyeth. Product identification ('the product which allegedly caused the injury was manufactured or sold by the defendant') is treated as fundamental, defeating negligence, strict-liability, warranty, and fraud theories together.
“The Court cannot impose a duty of care on Defendants here where the generic manufacturers are responsible for the contents of their label, and where the Defendants lacked direct control as to the contents of that label.”
Procedural preferences
Social Security review (as 636(c) consent judge of record): decides the appeal himself on the deferential substantial-evidence standard, affirming where the ALJ is supported (Gentle) but reversing and remanding under sentence four where it is not (Tyler). Contested, fully briefed merits decisions take roughly 11 months from the completed plaintiff brief to a signed Opinion & Order in this sample.
“The decision of the Commissioner is REVERSED and the matter is REMANDED pursuant to sentence four of 42 U.S.C. 405(g) to the Commissioner for further administrative proceedings consistent with this Order.”
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.
| Summary judgment N = 1 |
Granted: 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.
“For the reasons given below, the Court RECOMMENDS that Summary Judgment be GRANTED in favor of Defendants.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Caseload mix is descriptive, from search_dockets enumeration; no FJC IDB baseline available for this court/period.