Daniel Thew Wright
Judge Wright no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Wright decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
He refused to let contemporaneous oral terms convert an unconditional written note into a conditional obligation.
“the contract could not be controlled by an oral agreement made concurrently, engrafting iipon it a stipulation by which the absolute terms should be conditional ones.”
He distinguished a timely first indictment from a later superseding indictment when applying the statutory deadline for grand-jury action.
“The grand jury did take action on the case within 9 months, for it returned the first indictment within 4 months from the holding over to await its action.”
Cautions
He found no meaningful distinction between tribal treaty and trust funds for the requested injunction, producing the same result for each.
“All parties agree that between the two ‘funds’ there is no distinction so far as the effort of the complainants’ bill is concerned; nor does any distinction occur to us in this regard.”
He applied a companion case directly when the later appeal presented the same untimely-prosecution issue.
“The judgment is affirmed on the authority of United States v. Cadarr”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The judgment of the court below was right and is affirmed.”
“The judgment is affirmed on the authority of United States v. Cadarr”
“The decree is affirmed in so far as it denied an injunction respecting the income of the trust fund; in so far as it enjoined the payment from the ‘treaty fund’ it must be reversed”
“The judgment of the court below, being correct, must be affirmed, with costs”
A historical record
Judge Wright 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.