Gina M. Groh
How Judge Groh decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In enforcing a contractual limitations period against an insured, the judge treated an unambiguous, undisputed filing-date-versus-loss-date calculation as dispositive rather than weighing the plaintiffs' equitable arguments about the clause's validity in any depth.
“It is similarly undisputed that the Plaintiffs initiated the instant case on April 27, 2023, over two years after the date of the fire.”
On a habeas exhaustion question, the judge looked past the magistrate's procedural framing to what the petitioner's direct appeal had actually presented to the state's highest court, rather than requiring a separate round of state collateral review as a formality.
“Since Petitioner appealed his conviction to the WVSCA which included the two grounds raised in support of his instant Petition, the Petition is fully exhausted and should be considered on its merits.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment [ECF No. 136] is GRANTED. Accordingly, this action is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”
“the Court SUSTAINS Petitioner's Objection. It is the opinion of this Court that the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation should be, and is, hereby ORDERED REJECTED for the reasons more fully stated therein.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The sampled docket is dominated by pro se federal-prisoner filings (2241 habeas petitions and Bivens/civil-rights suits) referred to a magistrate judge for a report and recommendation, alongside a smaller mix of diversity contract, construction, and removed civil actions; contested dispositive rulings in the prisoner cases are almost always R&R adoptions rather than motions briefed directly to the district judge.
Put Judge Groh's record to work
Ezel drafts and answers grounded in this exact profile: how Judge Groh actually rules, not a generic AI guess.
Opens in Ezel Pro. Every answer is grounded in Judge Groh's own signed orders and cites them.