Diane J. Humetewa
How Judge Humetewa decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Procedural preferences
On APA review of an administrative record, gives strong deference to the agency hearing officer's factual and credibility findings, and holds that nonmutual collateral estoppel cannot be asserted against the government.
“the Court finds that the ONHIR did not abuse its discretion, or arbitrarily, or capriciously deny Plaintiff relocation benefits... the Court must give deference to the IHO's credibility determinations.”
Motion outcomes
Counted from classified signed orders only. Percentages are shown only where the sample is large enough to be meaningful; smaller samples are reported as raw counts.
| Summary judgment N = 4 |
Granted: 2Denied: 2 | counts only |
| Motions to strike N = 1 |
Denied: 1 | counts only |
A "1 of 1" is one ruling, not a tendency. Treat small samples as illustrative, not predictive.
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 11) is denied and Defendant's Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 19) is granted.”
“IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 11) is denied and Defendant's Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 19) is granted. ... IT IS FINALLY ORDERED that judgment shall be entered for Defendant and this matter shall be closed.”
“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiff's Motion to Strike (Doc. 13) is denied.”
“IT IS ORDERED that Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 104) is GRANTED and Plaintiff's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment (Doc. 105) is DENIED. All of Plaintiff's claims are dismissed. The Clerk of Court is kindly directed to enter judgment in Defendant's favor and dismiss this action.”
“IT IS ORDERED that Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 104) is GRANTED and Plaintiff's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment (Doc. 105) is DENIED.”