Edie R. Ervin

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas magistrate

How Judge Ervin decides

Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

What persuades

On a contested defense summary-judgment motion in a prisoner civil-rights suit Ervin recommends denial, letting the claims proceed, and the district judge adopts and denies the motion.

“United States Magistrate Judge Edie R. Ervin's partial recommended disposition [Doc. No. 42] is adopted and defendants' motion for summary judgment [Doc. No. 30] is denied.”

Procedural preferences

On Social Security appeals she recommends a sentence-four remand to let the ALJ develop the record on an under-considered impairment (such as bipolar disorder) rather than an award of benefits.

“the recommended disposition of United States Magistrate Judge Edie R. Ervin [Doc. No. 9] is adopted and this case is remanded to permit the ALJ to consider and develop the record regarding Francis Beard's bipolar disorder.”

Signed rulings

A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.

Crowley v. Lemons
4:24-cv-00397-BSM · 2024-10-21
Summary judgment (defendant) Denied

“United States Magistrate Judge Edie R. Ervin's partial recommended disposition [Doc. No. 42] is adopted and defendants' motion for summary judgment [Doc. No. 30] is denied.”

Beard v. Social Security Administration
4:24-cv-00803-BSM · 2025-05-16
Social security appeal (plaintiff) Granted in part

“the recommended disposition of United States Magistrate Judge Edie R. Ervin [Doc. No. 9] is adopted and this case is remanded to permit the ALJ to consider and develop the record regarding Francis Beard's bipolar disorder.”

Bobbitt v. U.S. Marshals
4:24-cv-00293-BSM · 2024-04-24
Habeas petition (petitioner) Denied

“Magistrate Judge Edie R. Ervin's recommended disposition [Doc. No. 4] is adopted and petitioner Christopher Bobbitt's section 2241 petition is dismissed without prejudice.”

Landers v. White County Detention Center
4:22-cv-00807-KGB · 2023-04-19

Pro se detainee civil-rights suit. Ervin recommended dismissal without prejudice for failure to comply with Local Rule 5.5(c)(2), update an address, and prosecute. District Judge Baker adopted the recommendation, dismissed the case, and denied the defendants' motion to dismiss as moot. The dismissal was procedural rather than a merits ruling on the defendants' motion.

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

Warrant and magistrate matters terminate same-day; no contested-motion latency from these. Civil recommendation latency is not grounded here.

Put Judge Ervin's record to work

Ezel drafts and answers grounded in this exact profile: how Judge Ervin actually rules, not a generic AI guess.

Opens in Ezel Pro. Every answer is grounded in Judge Ervin's own signed orders and cites them.