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Hon. John M. GallagherDistrict JudgePennsylvania Eastern District Court

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Comment #	Occupation	Rating	Comments	Date & Time
35968	Other	View Details	Disappointed that this federal judge doesn't understand his job in a CIVIL case brought by the ACLU. Nobody asked him to babysit state criminal cases. The ACLU wants oversight into the astronomical and impossible to meet PRE-TRIAL...Read More	11/07/2025 02:18 AM
34822	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	Probably one of the stronger EDPA judges in most regards. Very polite and professional toward counsel and litigants. His orders in our case were well thought out and supported, and his writing is clear and simple. Not much bias in...Read More	08/22/2022 02:52 PM
34700	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	Really great judge who should probably be on the 3rd circuit someday. He is very affable, didn't show much bias, and is a sharp legal mind.	07/05/2022 06:09 PM
34181	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	Judge Gallagher is extremely affable, courteous, allows counsel to make their arguments, and rules fairly. His decisions were well considered, and didn't show much, if any, bias.	08/16/2021 10:02 AM
33401	Civil Litigation - Private	View Details	Extremely courteous to counsel. Allows lawyers time to fully argue their matters. A real gentleman.	08/12/2020 08:39 AM
33306	Litigant	No Rating	I am very surprised to see that Judge Jon's Gallagher rating was cleaned up. He is no doubt the Judge that takes care of county crooked cops, protecting them and career criminals on their payroll and other powerful unethical count...Read More	05/17/2020 05:01 PM

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