Charlotte Noelle Sweeney
How Judge Sweeney decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
She imposes evidentiary spoliation sanctions where a party intentionally destroys evidence, barring a defense theory and shifting fees.
“the Court ADOPTS WITH MODIFICATIONS, as outlined above, Magistrate Judge Braswell's Recommendation on Plaintiff's Motion for Sanctions, ECF No. 89, and grants in part and denies in part Plaintiff's Motion for Sanctions, ECF No. 61.”
Procedural preferences
Sweeney frequently hears oral argument and rules from the bench on summary judgment, parsing employment claims one by one and preserving viable claims (for example, denying summary judgment on a failure-to-accommodate claim while granting it on disability-discrimination and retaliation claims).
“ORDERED: [23] Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment Pursuant to F.R.C.P. 56 is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part; granted as to the discrimination claim based on disability and retaliation, denied as to the failure to accommodate claim.”
Cautions
On aggressive pro se post-judgment practice she denies omnibus Rule 59/60 motions in full: recusal under 28 U.S.C. 455 is purely objective and adverse rulings are grounds for appeal not recusal, Rule 60 cannot be used to relitigate the merits, and a complaint cannot be amended until the judgment is vacated.
“Plaintiff's Opposed Motion for Revocation of Final Judgement [sic], Recusal of Magistrate Judge and District Court Judge, Leave to File Fourth Amended Complaint, and Request for Advisement to Defendants is DENIED in its entirety (ECF No. 77).”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Plaintiff's Opposed Motion for Revocation of Final Judgement [sic], Recusal of Magistrate Judge and District Court Judge, Leave to File Fourth Amended Complaint, and Request for Advisement to Defendants is DENIED in its entirety (ECF No. 77).”
“ORDERED: [52] Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part.”
“ORDERED: [23] Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment Pursuant to F.R.C.P. 56 is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part; granted as to the discrimination claim based on disability and retaliation, denied as to the failure to accommodate claim.”
“the Court ADOPTS WITH MODIFICATIONS, as outlined above, Magistrate Judge Braswell's Recommendation on Plaintiff's Motion for Sanctions, ECF No. 89, and grants in part and denies in part Plaintiff's Motion for Sanctions, ECF No. 61.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Two terminated civil-case durations are available, a small set for a judge commissioned in 2022. The contested cases reviewed were reassigned to her on appointment and decided on the merits, so they reflect her rulings even though they were filed shortly before she took the bench.
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