William Henry Seaman
Judge Seaman no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Seaman decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Procedural preferences
Seaman treated an incomplete appellate record as fatal to a challenge depending on unpreserved circumstances; the lower court's ruling remained presumptively supported.
“If the ruling requires such support, therefore, the judgment is presumptive of ‘good cause shown,’ and stands unimpeached.”
Cautions
Executive immigration action could not be sustained on a different statutory theory when the affected person received no hearing on that theory.
“Whatever were the subsequent proceedings or conclusions in the department, they were ex parte, and the final orders for rearrest and deportation were without hearing and unauthorized.”
Commercial use beyond the time and scope reasonably needed to test an invention was public use rather than protected experimentation.
“Experimental use becomes public use when it extends further, either in time or in number of instances, than is reasonably required to test the invention.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The judgment of the Circuit Court, accordingly, is affirmed.”
“the first-mentioned judgment, in No. 1999, is affirmed; and the judgment in No. 2022 is reversed, and the cause so designated is -remanded to the District Court, with direction to grant a new trial.”
“The judgment of the District Court is affirmed.”
“The decree of the District Court, accordingly, is affirmed.”
“the decree of the Circuit Court is affirmed.”
“The judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed.”
“the judgment, accordingly, is affirmed”
“The order of the District Court is reversed, accordingly, -with direction to proceed in reference to the appellant's claim in conformity with the foregoing opinion.”
“the order of the Circuit Court is affirmed.”
“The decree of the District Court is reversed, accordingly, with direction to hear further testimony as above indicated, and proceed thereupon in conformity with this opinion.”
“the District Court rightly disallowed their claim; and the order thereupon is affirmed.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Circuit judges do not carry a single assigned trial caseload. Seaman's earlier district service is outside this record.
A historical record
Judge Seaman no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.