Susan R. Bolton

How Judge Bolton rules, drawn from 23 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Court
United States District Court for the District of Arizona
Position
district
Status
Senior status
Appointed by
Bill Clinton (Democratic)
Commissioned
2000-10-13
ABA rating
Well Qualified (Substantial Majority; Minority Qualified)
Education
University of Iowa (BA, 1973); University of Iowa College of Law (JD, 1975)
Signed orders read
23

Signed rulings

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

Kastl v. Maricopa County Community College District
2:02-cv-01531-PHX-SRB
Summary judgment (defendant) Granted

“IT IS ORDERED granting Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 114). ... IT IS FURTHER ORDERED directing the Clerk to enter Judgment in favor of Defendant dismissing Plaintiff's Complaint.”

Motions to strike (defendant) Granted

“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED granting Defendant's Motion to Strike Plaintiff's Untimely Objection to Defendant's Proffer of Undisputed Facts and Exhibits and Documents in Support of Response to Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 122).”

Motion for extension of time (plaintiff) Denied

“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED denying Plaintiff's Motion to Extend Filing Deadline (Doc. 126).”

Save Our Sonoran, Inc. v. Flowers
2:02-cv-00761 · 2006-05-02
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Denied

“IT IS ORDERED denying Defendant Lone Mountain's Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff's First Supplemental Complaint (Doc. 175).”

Preliminary injunction (plaintiff) Denied

“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED denying Plaintiff's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction (Doc. 160 and 181).”

Turney v. Chao
2:05-cv-04031 · 2006-07-21
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Granted

“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED granting the Motion to Dismiss (Doc. 9).”

De Freitas v. Thomas
2:13-cv-01364 · 2016-09-08
Summary judgment (defendant) Granted

“Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 107) is granted and the Clerk of Court must enter judgment accordingly.”

Motion for sanctions (defendant) Denied

“The Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation (Doc. 167) is adopted as the order of this Court; Defendants' Motion for Sanctions Pursuant to Rule 11 (Doc. 104) is denied.”

United States v. Verdugo-Munoz
2:03-cr-01161 · 2005-10-12
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Denied

“IT IS ORDERED denying Defendant's Motion to Dismiss (Doc. 87).”

Broadcast Music Inc. v. Moonshine Group, LLC
2:15-cv-00363 · 2015-12-29
Default judgment (plaintiff) Granted

“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED granting Plaintiffs' Motion for Default Judgment. (Doc. 24)”

Blair v. Viking Recovery Services
2:09-cv-01761 · 2010-09-02
Default judgment (plaintiff) Granted in part

“the Magistrate Judge filed a Report and Recommendation recommending that the Plaintiff's Motion for Default Judgment be granted in part and denied in part and that default judgment in the amount of $6,700.30 be awarded to Plaintiff. ... IT IS ORDERED adopting the Report and Recommendation of the Magistrate Judge as the order of this Court. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Clerk enter a Default Judgment in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant for $1,000.00 in statutory damages, $5,275.00 in attorneys' fees and $425.30 in costs.”

Irwin v. Davison
2:18-cv-03409 · 2020-02-06
Motion for sanctions (defendant) Granted

“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED granting Defendant's Motion for Sanctions. (Doc. 27)”

Branon v. United States
2:16-cv-04599 · 2020-02-27
Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted

“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED granting Movant's Motion to Vacate, Set Aside or Correct Sentence Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. (Doc. 7)”

Mullet v. Thornell
2:23-cv-01902 · 2024-07-18
Habeas petition (petitioner) Denied

“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED denying Petitioner's Petition Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 for a Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody and dismissing it with prejudice. (Doc. 1)”

Chapman v. Ryan
2:13-cv-00786 · 2014-04-28
Habeas petition (petitioner) Denied

“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED denying Petitioner's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus and Petitioner's Motion for an Evidentiary Hearing and for the Appointment of Counsel. (Docs. 1 and 14)”

Karban v. Ryan
2:14-cv-02763 · 2017-08-11
Habeas petition (petitioner) Denied

“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Petitioner's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus is denied and dismissed with prejudice.”

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