Charles R. Laurie
How Judge Laurie rules, drawn from 1 signed order. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Laurie no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Laurie decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Laurie applied the federal priority rule by comparing when competing liens became effective.
“As a general proposition, the first-filed lien has priority over a later-filed lien, or, to put it differently, the lien which is first in time is first in right.”
Laurie required a competing lien to be sufficiently specific and complete before it could enter the priority analysis.
“In order to even enter this calculation, a lien must be choate, a concept which requires a certain amount of specificity and completeness in the lien.”
Procedural preferences
Laurie's published merits decision followed the parties' consent to magistrate-judge jurisdiction.
“The parties to this suit consented to the exercise of this Magistrate Judge’s jurisdiction”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“This Magistrate Judge hereby grants the United States’ motion for summary judgment, and denies the motion for summary judgment filed by defendant Jaenson.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Twenty assigned matters were enumerated. Five terminated disability-benefits matters were sampled. Their durations ranged from 1,203 to 2,226 days, with a median of 1,519 days; every sampled entry stream was empty, so no docket motion or timing claim is made.
A historical record
Judge Laurie no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.