Eugene W. Beaulieu

How Judge Beaulieu rules, drawn from 3 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Judge Beaulieu no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled here.

Court
United States District Court for the District of Maine
Position
Magistrate judge
Status
Deceased
Served
1992–2018
Commissioned
January 21, 1992
Education
St. Joseph's Academy; St. Joseph's University, New Brunswick; Suffolk University, law degree, 1958
Signed orders read
3

About Judge Beaulieu

Eugene W. Beaulieu served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Maine from January 1992 to January 2000. Before joining the federal bench, he was a judge of the Maine District Court and a justice of the Penobscot County Superior Court. He earned his law degree from Suffolk University.

How Judge Beaulieu decides

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

Procedural preferences

In Nichols, Beaulieu treated a privately motivated confrontation outside assigned work as beyond the scope of employment for vicarious-liability purposes.

“actions that are done with a private, rather than a work-related, purpose to commit wrongdoing are outside of the scope of employment”

Signed rulings

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

Nichols v. Land Transport Corp.
· 1999-11-09
Summary judgment (employer defendant) Granted

“For the reasons stated above, Land Transport’s Motion for Summary Judgment is GRANTED.”

MCI Telecommunications Corp. v. Management Solutions, Inc.
· 1992-04-10
Summary judgment (telecommunications plaintiff) Granted

“I therefore recommend that the Plaintiffs Motion for Summary Judgment be GRANTED.”

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Lucca
· 1993-10-07
Summary judgment (insurer plaintiff) Granted in part

“Accordingly, I recommend that the Court GRANT Plaintiffs Motion for Summary Judgment as to Defendant Lucca, and DENY the Motion as to Defendant Charton.”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

The sampled historical matters included product-liability, employee-benefits, prisoner civil-rights, government-defendant, food-and-drug, and other civil cases, but their empty timelines support no motion-rate or timing analysis.

A historical record

Judge Beaulieu no longer hears cases. 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.