Kyle F. Reardon
How Judge Reardon decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In Social Security appeals, will recommend remand where an examining physician's testimony is internally inconsistent with the medical record and the ALJ failed to resolve the inconsistency, even absent any single dramatic error.
“The ALJ failed to develop the record and did not properly weigh Plaintiff's subjective complaints. The result was not harmless since it resulted in Plaintiff's non-disability status.”
Treats claim preclusion as a complete bar to a repeat civil suit over the same property dispute already reduced to judgment, and will recommend dismissal without leave to amend when amendment could not cure the preclusion problem.
“permitting leave to file an amended complaint would be 'futile,' a term used by the United States Supreme Court that applies when a court determines that there is no possible way for a litigant to cure the deficiencies identified in the complaint.”
Procedural preferences
In a multi-defendant drug-trafficking suppression motion, treated evidence of an ongoing distribution relationship and an officer's training-and-experience opinion about how traffickers retain records over time as sufficient to overcome a staleness challenge to search warrants issued five to nine months after the last documented drug sale.
“the five- and nine-month lapses following the August and December 2021 drug sales, respectively, did not make the information about those transactions stale.”
Applies the 'independent source' and good-faith exceptions as fully adequate alternative grounds for denying suppression once probable cause is independently established, rather than resting a ruling on a single theory.
“the warrants issued as to the Birchwood residence, Jetta, Malibu, and cell phones were supported with probable cause after eliminating any unlawful information from the warrant applications.”
Cautions
On a multiplicity challenge to a multi-count indictment arising from one incident with two victims, requires each count to be tested against the other counts' elements rather than against the overlap in the underlying conduct, and will not dismiss counts merely because the same evidence supports several of them.
“each count of Killing in Furtherance of Continuing Criminal Enterprise, Kidnapping Resulting in Death, Carjacking Resulting in Death, and Use of Firearm to Commit Murder in Relation to Drug Trafficking Crime requires proof that Defendant killed or caused the death of the specific person named in that count.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“IT IS ORDERED that the Motion for Detention Review is DISMISSED without prejudice.”
“this Court recommends that Defendant's Motion or Compassionate Release be DENIED without prejudice.”
“Plaintiff's allegations against all Defendants in their official capacity as well as Plaintiff's Count Two Fourteenth Amendment claim, are DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.”
“Plaintiff's Count Three failure to protect claim is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”
“Defendant's motion to dismiss Count One, Plaintiff's First Amendment retaliation claim, is DENIED.”
“this Court recommends that Claimant's motion at Docket 18 be GRANTED and this matter be REMANDED for further proceedings.”
Final Report and Recommendation advising acceptance of a consented guilty plea to a felony information involving an immigration-related offense. This was a non-adversarial plea proceeding, not a contested motion ruling.
“the Report and Recommendation at Docket 87 is ADOPTED in its entirety. The Court DENIES Defendant's Motion to Suppress at Docket 60.”
“the Court first GRANTS in part and DENIES in part Defendant Elisoff's Motion for Joinder; Defendant Elisoff has standing to join Defendant Kennedy's arguments concerning the searches of 3209 Turnagain Street, Apartments 3 and 4, but not the arguments concerning the search of 151 A Street Loop #7.”
“The Court next DENIES Defendants' request for an evidentiary hearing, as Defendants raise no factual disputes in the Motion to Suppress.”
“the Court recommends that the Motion to Suppress be DENIED because the law enforcement affidavits supporting the contested search warrants established probable cause that drug trafficking evidence would be found at the target locations.”
“Alphonso Williams's Motion to Suppress [104] is granted in part and denied in part as specified in the R&R”
“his Motion for an Evidentiary Hearing [105] is denied.”
“the Court therefore recommends that Defendant's Motion to Dismiss Indictment for Multiplicity at Docket 72 be DENIED.”
Final Report and Recommendation advising acceptance of consented guilty pleas to money-laundering conspiracy and felon-in-possession counts in a multi-defendant case. This was a non-adversarial plea proceeding, not a contested motion ruling.
“the Court recommends that Defendant's Motion to Dismiss at Docket 32 be DENIED without prejudice to refiling if it becomes appropriate after the en banc decision in United States v. Duarte.”
“the Petition for Habeas Corpus Relief from Unlawful Confinement Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 2241 is DISMISSED.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median motion-to-ruling time: 149 days (N = 2).
Reardon's enumerated docket is dominated by his criminal magistrate duty (initial appearances, arraignments, detention hearings, search-warrant and pen-register applications on virtually every akd criminal case) and a steady 636(c) consent Social Security appeal cohort (NOS 863/864 DIWC/DIWW). He also personally accepts and sentences misdemeanor consent pleas under 18 U.S.C. Section 3401. A number of civil cases nominally carry his name in the docket record (a qui tam False Claims Act suit, a personal-injury removal, a contract dispute, an administrative-procedure challenge, and a Hague Convention custody case) but were reassigned to an Article III judge before any substantive ruling, so they are recorded here as caseload mix only, not as his own motions.
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