Eleanor G. Tennyson
How Judge Tennyson decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Cautions
Tennyson is a brand-new MAGISTRATE JUDGE (assumed duties 2024-07-10; merit-selected, so no appointing president/party). Her docket splits into (a) REFERRAL R&Rs on dispositive motions (patent MTDs for the district judges; 1915A prisoner-screening) -- these are RECOMMENDATIONS subject to de novo review on objection, so confirm the district judge's adoption/modification before relying on a recommended outcome (in Daedalus, Connolly adopted the R&R only IN PART), and (b) her own 636(c)/duty civil docket (Social Security appeals, prisoner civil rights) where her orders are final. Before the bench she was a career law clerk to District Judge Maryellen Noreika (2018-2024) and an MNAT patent/Hatch-Waxman associate.
“Ms. Tennyson has been a career law clerk for the Honorable Maryellen Noreika, United States District Judge, District of Delaware since October 2018. She previously worked as an associate in the intellectual property group at Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP. Her work there focused on patent litigation, particularly Hatch-Waxman cases and matters involving the chemical arts.”
Tennyson's own R&R PDFs are long (e.g. the Daedalus patent R&R is 34 pages) and reliably TIME OUT on sofya fetch, so both reasoning-layer outcomes here were grounded from the district judge's (Connolly's) short ADOPTION orders rather than her R&R bodies. Re-verify and add her reasoning quotes on deepen if the R&R text becomes reachable.
“REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION re 15 Motion to Dismiss. ... Signed by Judge Eleanor G. Tennyson on 7/31/2025.”
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 = 1 |
Granted in part: 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.
“The Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation (D.I. 33) is ADOPTED IN PART. Defendant's motion to dismiss (D.I. 15) is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART.”
28 U.S.C. 1915A prisoner-civil-rights SCREENING R&R (rules on no party motion -> excluded from motion stats). Tennyson recommended dismissal; Chief Judge Connolly ADOPTED the R&R in full on 2025-04-08: 'Magistrate Tennyson's Report and Recommendation (D.I. 12) is ADOPTED.' Disposition: complaint DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE as to the individual defendants (Carter, Banya, Jolly) with LEAVE TO AMEND, and DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE as to JTVCC (the institution). R&R filed 2025-03-17 -> adopted 2025-04-08 = 22-day R&R-to-adoption latency. No objections were filed. Grounded from Connolly's adoption order (doc 1), which I read in full.