Billy Wayne Lewis Jr.
How Judge Lewis decides
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What persuades
Enforces the federal habeas limitations period at the threshold and will deny an evidentiary hearing when the petition is time-barred.
“is DENIED without an evidentiary hearing as time-barred”
Procedural preferences
Reviews objections to a magistrate judge's recommendation before adopting it and entering the recommended dispositive judgment.
“the court OVERRULES the Plaintiff's objections; the court ADOPTS the recommendation of the Magistrate Judge”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Lively's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2254 (doc. 1) is DENIED without an evidentiary hearing as time-barred and that this case be DISMISSED with prejudice”
“The court GRANTS Defendants Marshall and Hamm's 29 Motion for Summary Judgment and enters judgment in favor of Marshall and Hamm on all claims and against Plaintiff”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median motion-to-ruling time: 4.5 days (N = 2).
Lewis's early federal docket includes civil-rights, prisoner, habeas, employment, trade-secret, labor, consumer, and commercial matters, many inherited when he joined the court.
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