Giselle M. López-Soler
How Judge López-Soler decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In a Law 75 distributorship dispute, she found a distributor's own use of the supplier's shelving and logo to sell a visually similar rival brand undercut its claim to equitable relief, reasoning by analogy to First Circuit case law that a distributor shifting attention to a competing line establishes the supplier's 'just cause' to limit the relationship.
“it is not reasonable to conclude that EMI could use the shelves and logo of Robin Ruth to sell the competing brand of Fashion Code, especially given the similarities between the Fashion Code products and those of Robin Ruth... these actions could certainly be held to constitute defaults on EMI's essential obligations in the distribution of Robin Ruth”
Procedural preferences
Reviewing a bankruptcy appeal, she required strict compliance with Rule 19's joinder analysis before a case is dismissed for the absence of a required party: a court must actually order joinder (or explain why it is infeasible) and weigh the Rule 19(b) equitable factors, rather than simply fault the plaintiff for not having joined the party in the first place.
“The Bankruptcy Court failed to order their joinder under Rule 19(a)(2) and relied on Appellants' failure to have joined them in the first place to justify dismissal... the Bankruptcy Court would have nonetheless had to apply the Rule 19(b) factors prior to dismissing the action altogether.”
Cautions
In Second Amendment challenges to federal firearms statutes after Bruen and Rahimi, she reads Rahimi narrowly and declines to import an ad hoc multi-factor test a defendant constructs from its language, insisting instead on a straightforward historical-analog analysis and giving weight to persuasive authority from sister courts within the district.
“Nowhere does the Supreme Court in Rahimi impose those 'six salient features' as requirements for the constitutionality of a firearm regulation... Defendant's reading of Rahimi is at best off mark.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The undersigned recommends that Defendants' motions at Docket Nos. 122-124 be GRANTED.”
“the undersigned recommends that Hurwitz's motion to dismiss for insufficient service at Docket No. 144 be deemed MOOT.”
“the undersigned recommends that Plaintiffs' motion for stay pending appeal at Docket No. 202 be GRANTED”
“the undersigned recommends that Defendant's motion to dismiss be DENIED.”
“Torres-Díaz's motion to dismiss (Docket No. 22) and the supplemental motion to dismiss (docket No. 34) be denied.”
“the undersigned recommends that EMI's request for a preliminary injunction be DENIED.”
“the undersigned recommends that the United States Bankruptcy Court's order dismissing the adversary proceeding be affirmed in part and reversed in part.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Her assigned docket is dominated by a large consent (28 U.S.C. 636(c)) Social Security disability-appeal caseload -- 39 such cases enumerated filed 2021-2024 -- alongside consent civil matters spanning personal-injury/medical-malpractice diversity suits, commercial and distributorship disputes, and intellectual-property matters, plus criminal duty (search warrants, initial proceedings, and referred felony motions). This matches the registry's discovery note that she runs a large consent Social Security docket.
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