Alonzo P. Wilson
How Judge Wilson rules, drawn from 21 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Wilson no longer sits on this court. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled here.
About Judge Wilson
Alonzo P. Wilson served as a United States magistrate judge for the Western District of Louisiana. The judge held the full-time position in the Lake Charles Division from 1991 to 2007.
How Judge Wilson decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In Conoco Inc. v. Boh Bros. Construction Co., Magistrate Judge Wilson found that Conoco put the reasonableness of its settlement at issue in seeking indemnity and could not withhold the privileged communications needed to prove it. The district judge upheld his discovery ruling.
“Conoco will inevitably be forced to draw upon privileged communications to prove that it is entitled to indemnity and that the settlement was reasonable.”
Procedural preferences
In Griffin v. Georgia Gulf Lake Charles, LLC, Magistrate Judge Wilson recommended denying remand because the amount in controversy was apparent from the complaint and the plaintiff’s later damages cap did not defeat jurisdiction. The district judge adopted the recommendation.
“When, on the other hand, the amount in controversy is clear from the face of the complaint, post-removal stipulations purporting to reduce the amount of damages plaintiffs seek cannot deprive the Court of jurisdiction.”
In Chambers Medical Foundation, Wilson denied the estate’s request to intervene, finding its proposed claims speculative and its apparent attempt to secure remand ineffective.
“Here, the speculative nature of the intervention and its apparent, yet ineffective attempt to compel remand guide our decision.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“IT IS ORDERED that the motion for summary judgment on behalf of Boeing Louisiana, Inc. be and the same is hereby GRANTED dismissing the third-party complaint of Louisville Ladder Company with prejudice.”
“IT IS ORDERED that petitioner's challenge to the order of deportation issued against him and request for a stay of deportation is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE as this court is without subject matter jurisdiction to review these matters.”
“ORDERED that the petition for writ of habeas corpus be DENIED AND DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”
“Accordingly, Conoco’s motion for protective order is GRANTED with respect to Items 14-16 of the 30(b)(6) Deposition Notice. ... For the reasons stated above, it is ORDERED that the motion for protective order be DENIED with respect to Items 10,11,12, 17, and 18 of the 30(b)(6) Deposition Notice and Items 1-4 of the Second Request for Production of Documents.”
“The motions to intervene [doc. #s 42 & 49] are hereby DENIED.”
“IT IS ORDERED that Plaintiffs Motion to Remand be and is hereby DENIED.”
“ORDERED that this petition be DENIED AND DISMISSED.”
“IT IS ORDERED that this' Petition for Writ of Mandamus is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE due to this court's lack of jurisdiction to grant the requested relief.”
“ORDERED that the petition of Edward G. Robiehaux be and it is hereby dismissed with prejudice.”
“ORDERED that Petitioner's application for writ of Habeas Corpus be and it is hereby DENIED.”
“IT IS ORDERED that all claims against the Safety Council are dismissed except the claims that the Safety Council went beyond the scope of Judge Quirk's sentence in requiring that plaintiff attend a Christian church and in requiring that plaintiff attend church for the period of time that it did.”
“ORDERED that the ‘Motion to Determine Propriety of and Define Class’ [Doc. 38] be and it is hereby DENIED.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 821 days (N = 6).
Median motion-to-ruling time: 45 days (N = 2).
- As the Lake Charles Division's full-time magistrate judge (1991-2007), Wilson received the division's referral docket (Social Security appeals, prisoner civil-rights and conditions suits, immigration-detention habeas) for report and recommendation, presided over consenting civil cases to final judgment under 28 U.S.C. 636(c), and handled the division's criminal-duty matters.
- The six consent civil cases below are the enumerable slice for which the record carries filing and termination dates; they are a small, selection-biased sample of his consent docket, not a random caseload median.
A historical record
Judge Wilson no longer sits on this court. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled here. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.