G. Alan Teague
How Judge Teague rules, drawn from 10 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
How Judge Teague decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Procedural preferences
Local-rule compliance is enforced even in routine amendment requests: a proposed claim was rejected without prejudice because it appeared only in the clean pleading and was omitted from the required redlined version. Attorneys who skip the paperwork formalities can expect a procedural ruling rather than a decision on the substance.
“the Court will deny without prejudice the inclusion of the proposed breach of easement cause of action”
On motions to amend, the judge applies the liberal Rule 15 standard generously to add new claims (trespass and intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress theories were allowed on both sides of an easement dispute) while still screening out theories the Virgin Islands does not recognize: both parties' proposed negligent-infliction-of-emotional-distress claims were rejected as futile because Virgin Islands courts have not adopted that cause of action on facts like these.
“The only proposed causes of action found to be futile are those asserted by both parties alleging negligent infliction of emotional distress”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“ORDERED that Plaintiffs' Motion [ECF 88] is DENIED as MOOT.”
“ORDERED that Plaintiffs' Motion [ECF 107] to Amend Complaint is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART.”
“ORDERED that Defendants' Motion [ECF 108] to Amend Answer and Counterclaim is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART.”
“the Court RECOMMENDS that Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunctive relief be DENIED.”
“Plaintiff Hill International, Inc.'s Motion to Remand (ECF No. 21) is DENIED and the Notice of Withdrawal (ECF No. 63) is ACCEPTED.”
“Defendant's 12(b)(1) motion as to standing is GRANTED and Plaintiff's procurement power claims are DISMISS WITHOUT PREJUDICE for lack of standing”
“Defendant's 12(b)(6) motion is GRANTED and Counts I, II, and III of Plaintiff's Complaint are DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE for failure to state a claim”
“Defendant's 12(b)(1) motion as to exhaustion is DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE”
“Defendant's motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(5) for insufficient service of process is DENIED as MOOT.”
“I therefore recommend the plea of guilty be accepted and that Defendant be adjudged guilty and have sentence imposed accordingly.”
“I therefore recommend the plea of guilty be accepted and that Defendant be adjudged guilty and have sentence imposed accordingly.”
“I therefore recommend the plea of guilty be accepted and that Defendant be adjudged guilty and have sentence imposed accordingly.”
“I therefore recommend the plea of guilty be accepted and that Defendant be adjudged guilty and have sentence imposed accordingly.”
“I therefore recommend that the plea of guilty be accepted and that the Defendant be adjudged guilty and have sentence imposed accordingly.”
“I therefore recommend the plea of guilty be accepted and that Defendant be adjudged guilty and have sentence imposed accordingly.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
- The sampled dockets referred to Teague span a St. John easement/tort dispute, a marine seaman's Jones Act injury claim, two mortgage-foreclosure actions, and a foreclosure-adjacent third-party-complaint dispute over marina charter damage: a mix consistent with this small territorial division's civil docket.
- Most of the classified rulings are scheduling, extension, and procedural orders rather than dispositive rulings, reflecting how much of a referred magistrate's day-to-day docket work in these cases is case management; the one referred dispositive motion in the sample (a seaman's motion for partial summary judgment) was resolved by Report and Recommendation and adopted by the Chief Judge.
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