Willard Hall
How Judge Hall rules, drawn from 3 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Hall no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled here.
About Judge Hall
Willard Hall was a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Appointed by President James Monroe, Judge Hall received a commission on December 9, 1823. Judge Hall retired on December 6, 1871.
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
Hall rejected the asserted statutory basis for a military commission to try civilians after civil government and civil courts had resumed operation.
“Let there be a decree of condemnation in the usual form.”
“This view indicates the principle of allowance: divide what remains over all costs and disbursements equally between the parties — to each a moiety. I think this is satisfactory to common sense and feeling of propriety.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No case-level electronic docket records are available for this nineteenth-century tenure.
A historical record
Judge Hall no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled here. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.