Norman Reid Neureiter
How Judge Neureiter rules, drawn from 8 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
How Judge Neureiter decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Distinguishes curable from incurable defects: recommends dismissal WITHOUT prejudice where a plaintiff might replead, but WITH prejudice where amendment would be futile.
“further amendment of Plaintiff's Complaint would be futile. The Court agrees dismissal with prejudice is the proper outcome of this case.”
In consent immigration-habeas cases involving long-term residents treated as subject to mandatory detention, he has applied the bond-hearing statute and ordered a prompt hearing or release when continued detention without that process was unlawful.
“the Court finds that Petitioner has met his burden showing that his continued detention without a bond hearing is unlawful.”
Procedural preferences
Extends substantial procedural latitude to pro se litigants, here three separate extensions of the deadline to respond to a summary-judgment motion, but will recommend granting the unopposed motion if they still fail to respond.
“Plaintiff did not respond to the motion for summary judgment -- even though Magistrate Judge Neureiter extended Plaintiff's deadline to respond three times.”
Cautions
His recommendations are not rubber-stamped: in Warrington a district judge sustained the pro se plaintiff's objections in part and modified his recommended full dismissal to a partial dismissal: on a contested objection the recommended disposition can be narrowed.
“Plaintiff's objections [Doc. 81] are SUSTAINED in part and OVERRULED in part; The Report and Recommendation ... is ADOPTED in part”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Defendant Eagle County's Motion to Dismiss (Doc. # 23) is GRANTED. ... this action is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE in its entirety.”
“FURTHER ORDERED that Defendant Bellco's Motion to Dismiss (Doc. # 31) is GRANTED.”
“The Court AFFIRMS and ADOPTS Magistrate Judge Neureiter's Recommendation, ECF No. 87, in its entirety as an order of this Court. Accordingly, the Court GRANTS Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment. ECF No. 74.”
“Defendants' Motion to Dismiss [Doc. 37] is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part; ... Plaintiff's due process claims are DISMISSED without prejudice”
“Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment [Doc. 64] is DENIED;”
“For the reasons set forth above, it is hereby ORDERED that the Motion to Dismiss (ECF No. 33) is DENIED.”
“For the foregoing reasons, it is hereby ORDERED that the Petition, ECF No. 1, is GRANTED in part as follows. 1) Respondents shall provide Petitioner with a bond hearing under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a) within seven days of this Order.”
“For the foregoing reasons, it is hereby ORDERED that the Petition, ECF No. 1, is GRANTED IN PART as follows, 1. Petitioner shall be released from custody subject to, and in accordance with, the terms and conditions, including bond conditions, imposed by the immigration judge in the March 4, 2026 order;”
“Plaintiff’s Motion to Exclude or Limit the Testimony of Dr. Rachel Basse, ECF No. 34, is DENIED”
“Plaintiff’s Motion to Exclude or Limit the Testimony of Dr. Hal Wortzel, ECF No. 35, is DENIED IN PART AND GRANTED IN PART.”
“For the reasons set forth above, it is hereby RECOMMENDED that Defendant’s Partial Motion to Dismiss, ECF No. 59, be GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART and that only Plaintiff’s claim for negligence (claim three) be DISMISSED.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
- His directly-assigned docket is dominated by a 2026 wave of immigration detention habeas petitions, nearly all still pending, so no terminated-case duration distribution can be drawn from it yet.
- His merits work reaches the public record in two ways: Reports and Recommendations on dispositive motions in cases a district judge has referred to him, and rulings in cases where the parties consented to have him preside under the magistrate-judge consent statute.
- In the consent civil cases sampled, insurance-coverage and other diversity contract and personal-injury suits, the matters typically settle before any contested dispositive ruling.
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