Lois Bloom
How Judge Bloom decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Procedural preferences
Pro se / IFP and discovery-compliance gatekeeper: with a 13-year S.D.N.Y. Pro Se Office background, much of her referral diet is pro se prisoner/civil-rights screening, leave-to-amend, and case-management. She is willing to deny a deficient default-judgment motion while giving the plaintiff leave to amend rather than entering relief on a thin record (Ferrera), and she allows factual supplementation while refusing to add defendants where amendment would be improper (Wilson).
“she recommended that the Court grant the plaintiff leave to amend to supplement his factual allegations but deny leave to amend to add Mr. Martinez-Nunez as a defendant.”
Cautions
Enforces discovery orders and court directives with case-terminating sanctions: she will recommend dismissal WITH PREJUDICE for failure to comply with discovery (Rule 37, Graham) or failure to pay a sanction / appear at a conference (failure to prosecute, Rodriguez), after warning. Litigants before her must obey court orders and deadlines; non-compliance risks dismissal of the whole case.
“Judge Bloom recommended that this suit be dismissed with prejudice because “[p]laintiff has failed to pay a court[-]imposed sanction, despite being afforded repeated extensions of time to do so, and has also failed to appear at a Court-ordered conference””
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.
| Default judgment N = 1 |
Denied: 1 | counts only |
| Motion for leave to amend N = 1 |
Granted in part: 1 | counts only |
| Habeas petition N = 1 |
Denied: 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.
“On April 6, 2015, Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom issued a Report and Recommendation (“R&R”) recommending that Plaintiff’s motion for a default judgment be denied. ... Accordingly, the Court adopts the R&R without de novo review.”
“she recommended that the Court grant the plaintiff leave to amend to supplement his factual allegations but deny leave to amend to add Mr. Martinez-Nunez as a defendant. ... I adopt the Report and Recommendation in its entirety.”
“the Court hereby AFFIRMS Magistrate Judge Bloom’s June 28, 2016 Report and Recommendation in its entirety and orders that the petition for a writ of habeas corpus be denied.”
EXCLUDED FROM MOTION STATS (non-party-motion dispositive ruling). Section 1983 case against two detectives. Magistrate Judge Bloom's R&R (2007-07-12) recommended DISMISSING the complaint WITH PREJUDICE under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(b)(2)(C) for the plaintiff's failure to comply with court orders to respond to discovery. District Judge Trager adopted the recommendation in full and entered judgment. A case-terminating discovery sanction (not a ruling on a party's motion); recorded as an order read with a grounding quote. Illustrates her role as the failure-to-comply / discovery-sanction workhorse on the Brooklyn docket.
EXCLUDED FROM MOTION STATS (non-party-motion dispositive ruling). FDCPA case. Magistrate Judge Bloom's R&R (2018-07-10) recommended DISMISSING the suit WITH PREJUDICE because the plaintiff failed to pay a court-imposed sanction (despite repeated extensions) and failed to appear at a court-ordered conference after warning. District Judge Ross reviewed for clear error, found none, and adopted, dismissing with prejudice. A failure-to-prosecute / sanction dismissal (not a ruling on a party's motion); recorded as an order read with a grounding quote.
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
E.D.N.Y. referral magistrate, Brooklyn (suffix 'LB'). Sampled final-period (late 2024 - 2025) terminated dockets show her diet: federal criminal mj matters (United States v. Hennen / Mitchell / Calderon Cifuentes), pro se prisoner civil rights (Southward v. Clinton Correctional Facility), ERISA/Taft-Hartley benefit-fund collection (Trustees of the Local 7 Tile Industry Welfare Fund v. Amadeus Marble & Granite), ADA (Lopez v. 83 Wythe LLC), and immigration (Jiang v. Mayorkas; Zheng v. Menges). Consistent with the GovInfo reasoning sample (pro se/prisoner, habeas, default/sanction work). This is a final-period snapshot, not a full-tenure caseload.