Elizabeth A. Pascal
How Judge Pascal decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
For a stay pending appeal, Pascal weighs practical duplication and prejudice rather than treating delay alone as dispositive; preserving finite insurance proceeds and avoiding repeated depositions supported a stay.
“ultimately benefit Claimant by preserving the insurance proceeds. The Court finds that this factor”
Late amendment is disfavored when the factual basis was known months earlier and the new pleading would restart discovery around additional defendants and theories.
“Such unexplained delay is undue.”
A request to depose opposing counsel is weak when the information is peripheral to the claims, privileged, and available from other witnesses.
“Here, the subpoenaed information does not implicate core factual issues relevant to any”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Complaint is DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE; and it is further”
“reasons, Plaintiffs’ Motion to Stay is GRANTED. However, since the current parties have been”
“ORDERED that Defendant’s Motion to Redact and Seal, ECF No. 78, is DENIED”
“ORDERED that Plaintiff’s motion to amend, ECF No. 25, is DENIED WITHOUT”
“ORDERED that Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel, ECF No. 43, is DENIED WITHOUT”
“Accordingly, the parties’ Joint Motion for approval of their Settlement Agreement is GRANTED,”
“GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART. An appropriate Order follows.”
“Defendants and nonparty Abraham Foster in civil contempt and requiring them to pay Plaintiff’s”
“attorneys’ fees in an amount to be determined. In addition, the Court recommends that bench”
“issuance of bench warrants for Defendant Andrew Foster and nonparty Abraham Foster.”
“notice of Jason Blessing’s deposition is GRANTED. An appropriate Order shall follow.”
“Plaintiff’s Motion for leave to amend the Complaint is DENIED.”
“appointment of pro bono counsel are GRANTED.”
“discovery before a Rule 26(f) conference is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART.”
“Complaint and the First Motion, and to redact portions of the Complaint are DENIED because”
“motion to proceed anonymously under the pseudonym of ‘Joe Doe’ is DENIED pursuant to an”
“DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE because Plaintiff has not provided an affidavit of inquiry”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The 23 identified matters filed from 2022 through 2024 included 18 terminated and five pending matters. The set mixes consent civil cases, referred civil matters, and criminal-duty proceedings, so it is a descriptive slice rather than a complete merits caseload.
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