Ashley Mulgrave Gould
Judge Gould no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Gould decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
He distinguished an electrical ore-treatment process from prior agitation methods because the source and effect of the agitation differed.
“The agitation may be the same, but the process of procuring the agitation is different.”
He enforced an insurance-policy assignment where the record offered no basis for replacing the parties' transaction with a court-created one.
“There is nothing in the record upon which to base such a finding.”
Cautions
He required a criminal appellant to show substantial prejudicial error rather than isolated imperfection in a lengthy trial record.
“Finding no substantial error in the record, and being satisfied therefrom that defendant had a fair and impartial trial in accordance with the settled rules of criminal law and procedure”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the decision of the Commissioner of Patents is accordingly reversed.”
“the decree will be reversed, with costs, and the cause remanded for the entry of a decree establishing the assignment of the policy”
“this appeal be, and it ia hereby, dismissed, with costs.”
A historical record
Judge Gould no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.