Mary Gordon Baker

How Judge Baker rules, drawn from 3 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Court
United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
Position
magistrate
Commissioned
2015-01-05
Education
University of South Carolina, B.A. political science, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude (1981); University of South Carolina School of Law, J.D.
Signed orders read
3

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.

Greenspan v. Brothers Property Corp.
· 2015-04-30
Motions to strike (defendant) Denied

“it is RECOMMENDED that Brothers’ Motion to Strike Plaintiffs First Amended Complaint (Dkt. No. 24) be DENIED.”

Motions to remand (plaintiff) Granted

“It is RECOMMENDED that Plaintiffs Motion For Remand (Dkt. No. 21) be GRANTED.”

Contravest Inc. v. Mt. Hawley Insurance Co.
· 2017-03-31
Motions to compel (plaintiff) 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.”

Peterson v. Berryhill
· 2019-02-01
Social security review (plaintiff) Denied

“the Magistrate Judge filed her Report recommending that the Commissioner’s decision to deny benefits be affirmed.”

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