Andrew P. Gordon
How Judge Gordon rules, drawn from 18 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
About Judge Gordon
Andrew Patrick Gordon is a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. Appointed by President Barack Obama, Judge Gordon received a commission on March 12, 2013.
How Judge Gordon decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In CP Food & Beverage, Gordon held that customer chargebacks were not direct losses from the employees’ theft under the commercial-crime policy.
“Its losses therefore did not ‘directly’ result from the thefts.”
In Martin v. James River Insurance Co., he granted dismissal after finding the named insured’s waiver bound the other insureds.
“IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that defendant James River Insurance Company's motion to dismiss (ECF No. 7) is GRANTED.”
In Citizens Bank, N.A. v. Magleby, he confirmed the arbitration award because the arbitrator had not manifestly disregarded controlling law.
“Because the arbitrator did not exhibit a manifest disregard of the law, I grant the petition.”
In Kristensen, he certified a text-message class defined by sending numbers and dates because membership could be resolved without individual trials.
“Individual mini-trials will not be necessary to determine who was sent the text message from the relevant phone numbers during the relevant time period.”
Procedural preferences
In Opportunity Homes v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Gordon granted Freddie Mac and FHFA's summary-judgment motion and denied Opportunity Homes' competing motion. The quiet-title dispute concerned whether an HOA foreclosure extinguished a federal property interest under the federal foreclosure bar.
“I grant Freddie Mac and FHFA's motion and deny Opportunity Homes' motion.”
In a vehicle-negligence suit, he entered judgment on negligent-hiring and negligent-entrustment claims after the employer admitted vicarious liability and the plaintiffs sought no punitive damages or distinct recovery on those claims.
“redundant and impermissible because the Bracaglias have failed to explain how these claims”
In Aiello, he declined to split discovery on intertwined contract and bad faith claims because separate discovery phases would prolong the case and waste judicial resources.
“Aiello's claims are intertwined, and separating discovery would unnecessarily prolong the process and waste judicial resources supervising two phases of discovery.”
Cautions
In Andrew ex rel. Pretner v. Century Surety Co., he denied competing summary-judgment motions because fact disputes remained.
“ORDER DENYING MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND TO STRIKE”
In Phua, Gordon suppressed hotel-room evidence obtained through a staged service outage and a repair-visit ruse, including evidence later used for a warrant.
“All evidence seized from villa 8882 during the unconstitutional warrantless searches on July 4 and July 5, 2014 is suppressed.”
In Kraja, he dismissed the section 1981 claims with prejudice but allowed amendment of two state-law claims while retaining federal employment claims.
“Kraja’s § 1981 claims are dismissed with prejudice”
In Alexander’s SWAT raid case, Gordon let the Nevada constitutional deadly-force claim proceed because a jury could find that the officers’ rapid entry tactics created an avoidable danger.
“Here, a reasonable jury may find that the defendants’ tactics created an avoidable deadly confrontation by surprising Williams as he slept, giving him insufficient time to realize officers were at his door, and inducing him to fire at perceived intruders.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that defendant United States Fire Insurance Company's motion for summary judgment (ECF No. 26) is GRANTED.”
“I grant Freddie Mac and FHFA's motion and deny Opportunity Homes' motion.”
“(2) DENYING PLAINTIFF'S SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION”
“ORDER DENYING MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND TO STRIKE”
“I grant SFR's motion and grant in part Foothills' motion.”
“ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART THE DEFENDANT'S SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION”
“IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that defendant James River Insurance Company's motion to dismiss (ECF No. 7) is GRANTED.”
“I ORDER that the petition to confirm arbitration award (ECF No. 1) is granted.”
“(ECF No. 29) is GRANTED as to claims 3 and 5 of the complaint.”
“Geico's motion to dismiss (ECF No. 6 ) is GRANTED .”
“Geico's motion to sever and stay Aiello's bad faith claim (ECF No. 7 ) is DENIED.”
“GEICO's motion to dismiss the complaint (ECF No. 6 ) is GRANTED .”
“I therefore deny GEICO's motion to stay and bifurcate.”
“defendant Wells Fargo’s motion to dismiss (Dkt. #13) is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part.”
“IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that defendant Phua’s motion to suppress (Dkt. #229) is granted”
“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that defendant Phua’s motion to suppress (Dkt. #232) is granted”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
- The sampled recent docket is dominated by 2026 alien-detainee petitions under 28 U.S.C. 2241, including Arostegui-Garcia v. Bondi, Torres Martinez v. Lyons, and Culajay Pineda v. Knight.
- It also includes prisoner civil-rights, employment, personal-injury, and insurance matters.
- Because the recent cases were filed in May and June 2026 and remained pending, case-duration figures come from the two named terminated cases below.
Pending matters in the official report
Reported by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts under the Civil Justice Reform Act, as of March 31, 2026.
| Motions pending more than six months | 8 |
| Bench trials submitted more than six months | 0 |
| Bankruptcy appeals pending more than six months | 0 |
| Social Security appeals pending more than six months | 0 |
| Civil cases pending more than three years | 25 |
| Report | Motions over six months | Cases over three years |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | 8 | 25 |
| Sep 2025 | 0 | 24 |
| Mar 2025 | 0 | 23 |
| Sep 2024 | 1 | 23 |
| Mar 2024 | 1 | 23 |
| Sep 2023 | 1 | 22 |
| Mar 2023 | 0 | 24 |
| Sep 2022 | 0 | 30 |
| Mar 2022 | 2 | 32 |
| Sep 2021 | 15 | 31 |
| Mar 2021 | 3 | 37 |
| Sep 2020 | 4 | 39 |
A snapshot on that date: matters listed may since have been decided or reassigned. A motion referred to a magistrate judge is counted for both judges. Motions in multidistrict litigation, section 2255 cases and Social Security appeals are not counted, and a very large three-year count is generally a multidistrict docket. Source: Appendix A of the report (PDF); about the report.
How long civil cases take in this court
For the whole of United States District Court for the District of Nevada, not for Judge Gordon: median time from filing to disposition of the civil cases the court closed in the 12 months ending September 30, 2025, as reported by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
| Cases | Median time | |
|---|---|---|
| All civil cases closed | 2,100 | 8 months |
| Closed with no court action | 290 | 5.4 months |
| Closed before pretrial | 1,769 | 8.4 months |
| Closed during or after pretrial | 28 | 8 months |
| Closed during trial | 13 | 62 months |
| 12 months ending | Cases closed | Median time |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | 2,100 | 8 months |
| Sep 2024 | 2,177 | 8.5 months |
| Sep 2023 | 2,000 | 8.4 months |
| Sep 2022 | 2,030 | 8.8 months |
| Sep 2021 | 2,291 | 8.6 months |
| Sep 2020 | 2,392 | 10.4 months |
| Sep 2019 | 2,679 | 11.5 months |
The table leaves out prisoner petitions, land condemnations, deportation reviews, recovery of overpayments and enforcement of judgments, and reports no median for fewer than 10 cases. A district that closed a large multidistrict litigation in the period shows very large counts and long medians for that year. Source: Table C-5, U.S. District Courts (spreadsheet).
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