Liles C. Burke
How Judge Burke decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Willing to strike down a federal statute on enumerated-powers grounds: he held the Corporate Transparency Act unconstitutional as exceeding Congress's enumerated powers and granted the challengers' summary judgment.
“The Court GRANTS the Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment. (Doc. 23) and DENIES the Defendant's Motion to Dismiss or Alternative Cross[-Motion for Summary Judgment].”
Procedural preferences
Even where a party files no response he refuses to grant summary judgment by default, reviewing the merits under Rule 56(e) before granting the motion.
“Speedway's motion for summary judgment (Doc. 24) is GRANTED, and this case is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”
Cautions
Adopts magistrate Findings & Recommendations and enforces the PLRA exhaustion requirement (42 U.S.C. 1997e(a)), granting dismissal where a prisoner failed to exhaust administrative remedies.
“the defendants' motions to dismiss are due to be granted based on the plaintiff's failure to exhaust administrative remedies under 42 U.S.C. 1997e(a).”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The Court GRANTS the Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment. (Doc. 23) and DENIES the Defendant's Motion to Dismiss or Alternative Cross[-Motion for Summary Judgment].”
“Speedway's motion for summary judgment (Doc. 24) is GRANTED, and this case is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”
“the defendants' motions to dismiss are due to be granted based on the plaintiff's failure to exhaust administrative remedies under 42 U.S.C. 1997e(a).”
“the defendants' motions for summary judgment (Docs. 27, 39, 54) are due to be GRANTED.”
“the plaintiff's motion for an extension of time and request for production of documents (Doc. 54) and Rule 56(e) motion (Doc. 55) is DENIED.”
“the Court GRANTS Defendants' motions for summary judgment, Docs. 31, 32. As a result, the case is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE, and the Clerk is ORDERED to close the case.”
“Phillips' Motion for Sanctions, Doc. 59, is DENIED”
“The defendants' motion for summary judgment is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART. (Doc. 13).”
“the Court finds that United Benefits is not entitled to relief from conduct it consented to, and the motion for injunctive relief is DENIED. Doc. 34.”
“the Court GRANTS the motion to enforce settlement. (Doc. 30). The parties are therefore ORDERED to carry out and fulfill the terms and provisions of the Mediation Term Sheet within fourteen (14) days of entry of this Order”
“Garrett's Motion to Vacate, Set Aside, or Correct her sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is DENIED. Doc. 1.”
“the respondent's motion to dismiss (Doc. 15) is due to be granted and the petition is due to be dismissed as moot.”
“the Appellee's motion to dismiss (Doc. 7) is GRANTED, and it is ORDERED that this appeal is DISMISSED.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 402 days (N = 17).
Median motion-to-ruling time: 185 days (N = 1).
The reviewed cases provide illustrative case-mix context rather than an exhaustive count. No administrative disposition baseline is available after mid-2021.
Put Judge Burke's record to work
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Opens in Ezel Pro. Every answer is grounded in Judge Burke's own signed orders and cites them.