Mary Gordon Baker
How Judge Baker decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In bad-faith insurance suits Baker holds that an insurer's assertion of its own good faith effects an at-issue waiver of attorney-client privilege over its claim files (City of Myrtle Beach), and she recommends granting the insured's motions to compel that discovery.
“the Report and Recommendation of Magistrate Judge Mary Gordon Baker ... recommending the court grant plaintiffs ... motions to compel. ... the court adopts the R & R and grants plaintiffs’ motions to compel.”
Procedural preferences
Where a post-removal joinder of a non-diverse defendant destroys complete diversity, she recommends remand under 28 U.S.C. 1447(e).
“It is RECOMMENDED that Plaintiffs Motion For Remand (Dkt. No. 21) be GRANTED.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“it is RECOMMENDED that Brothers’ Motion to Strike Plaintiffs First Amended Complaint (Dkt. No. 24) be DENIED.”
“It is RECOMMENDED that Plaintiffs Motion For Remand (Dkt. No. 21) be GRANTED.”
“the Report and Recommendation of Magistrate Judge Mary Gordon Baker ... recommending the court grant plaintiffs ... motions to compel. ... the court adopts the R & R and grants plaintiffs’ motions to compel.”
“the Magistrate Judge filed her Report recommending that the Commissioner’s decision to deny benefits be affirmed.”
Put Judge Baker's record to work
Ezel drafts and answers grounded in this exact profile: how Judge Baker actually rules, not a generic AI guess.
Opens in Ezel Pro. Every answer is grounded in Judge Baker's own signed orders and cites them.