Edward Samuel Smith
How Judge Smith rules, drawn from 25 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Smith no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Smith decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
He evaluated an alleged workplace threat through the meaning a reasonable listener would give the words, not through the words in isolation.
“This court has held that the board must use ‘the connotation which a reasonable person would give to the words’2 in order to determine if the words constituted a threat.”
A composite mark must be assessed as a whole from the purchasing public's perspective rather than by testing each word separately for surname significance.
“The board never considered what the purchasing public would think when confronted with the mark as a whole.”
Cautions
For equitable estoppel, he required detrimental reliance rather than reliance alone.
“It is not enough to assert that they filed amended applications in reliance on the Government's action; they must also show that this left them in a worse position than they would have been otherwise.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“AFFIRMED IN PART, VACATED IN PART.”
“AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Not applicable to this circuit-court record.
A historical record
Judge Smith 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.