Norman Reid Neureiter
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.”
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”
Motion outcomes
Counted from classified signed orders only. Percentages are shown only where the sample is large enough to be meaningful; smaller samples are reported as raw counts.
| Motions to dismiss N = 3 |
Granted: 2Granted in part: 1 | counts only |
| Summary judgment N = 2 |
Granted: 1Denied: 1 | counts only |
A "1 of 1" is one ruling, not a tendency. Treat small samples as illustrative, not predictive.
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;”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Directly-assigned sample is almost entirely pending 2026 filings -- no terminated-case duration distribution computable this session. Flagged for deepening (enumerate -NRN referral dockets by number; sample terminated 636(c) consent cases).