Adriana Arce-Flores
How Judge Arce-Flores rules, drawn from 1 signed order. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Arce-Flores no longer sits on this court. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled here.
About Judge Arce-Flores
Adriana Arce-Flores served as a United States Magistrate Judge in the Laredo Division of the Southern District of Texas from October 2000 through 2008. Her appointment established an eight-year term with Laredo as her official station.
How Judge Arce-Flores decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Procedural preferences
When parallel state litigation was offered as a reason to pause a federal case, Arce-Flores treated abstention as exceptional and required a particularly clear justification for declining jurisdiction.
“Only the clearest of justifications will warrant dismissal.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“For the reasons outlined below, the Motion to Stay Proceedings is denied.”
“Upon denial of Defendant’s motion, the Plaintiffs Motion to Strike becomes moot.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The sampled assigned matters were almost entirely short criminal-duty or petty-offense proceedings. Sparse or missing termination metadata and the exclusion of a mismatched stream do not support a reliable duration statistic or civil caseload mix.
A historical record
Judge Arce-Flores no longer sits on this court. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled here. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.