Roderick R. McKelvie

United States District Court for the District of Delaware district Appointed by George H. W. Bush (Republican) 22 signed orders read

Signed rulings

A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.

Phillips Electronics North America Corp. v. Universal Electronics Inc.
Motions to compel (defendant) Denied

“IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that defendant’s motion to compel is denied.”

Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Hechinger Investment Co. v. Fleet Retail Finance Group
Motion to certify interlocutory appeal (defendants) Denied

“As explained above, because the defendants’ motion for certification will not be case dispositive for any set of defendants, the court will deny the motion.”

Vestar, Inc. v. Liposome Technology, Inc.
Summary judgment (plaintiff) Denied

“Although the Court agrees with Vestar’s interpretation of the claim, it will not grant summary judgment.”

Patrick v. Redman
Summary judgment (defendants) Granted

“For the following reasons, the Court will grant the defendants’ motion.”

AWC Liquidation Corp. v. Orentzel (In re American White Cross, Inc.)
Bankruptcy appeal (appellant) Denied

“For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the Bankruptcy Court denying Electra’s motion to intervene as futile is hereby affirmed.”

Saunders v. Neal
Habeas petition (petitioner) Denied

“For the following reasons, the Court will dismiss all claims under Habeas Rule 9(b) as an abuse of the writ.”

Helmark Steel, Inc. v. United States Department of Transportation
Summary judgment (defendants) Granted

“Therefore, DOT correctly determined that Helmark did not qualify as a DBE and defendants are entitled to summary judgment.”

Hoover v. Snyder
Habeas petition (petitioner) Denied

“For the reasons set forth in this Opinion, the court will dismiss the petition (D.1.2) and the writ is denied.”

Huyck Licensco, Inc. v. Asten Group, Inc.
Summary judgment (defendant) Denied

“Asten Forming’s motion for summary judgment will therefore be denied.”

Crissman v. Dover Downs, Inc.
Summary judgment (defendant) Granted

“Therefore, the court will grant summary judgment in favor of Dover Downs on the claims in the Crissmans’ amended complaint.”

C.R. Bard, Inc. v. United States Surgical Corp.
Summary judgment (defendant) Granted

“The court will enter an Order consistent with this Opinion granting U.S. Surgical’s motion for summary judgment of no infringement of claim 20”

Summary judgment (defendant) Denied

“and denying U.S. Surgical’s motion for summary judgment of no inducement of infringement of claim 21.”

In re Just for Feet, Inc.
Motion to pay prepetition claims (debtors) Granted in part

“the court grants the Debtors’ motion to pay the pre-petition claims of trade vendors only with respect to athletic footwear and apparel vendors.”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

The oldest tenure-era assigned-case slice included patent, prisoner, contract, insurance, benefits, tax, and bankruptcy matters, but the limited historical enumeration is not a career-wide caseload denominator.

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