Kathryn Kimball Mizelle
How Judge Mizelle decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Grants summary judgment to the plaintiffs on an Administrative Procedure Act challenge, declaring the challenged federal rule unlawful, vacating it, and remanding to the agency.
“ORDER granting summary judgment to Plaintiffs and against Defendants on Counts I, II, and III. The Mask Mandate is declared unlawful, vacated, and remanded to the CDC. The Court directs the Clerk to terminate President Biden as a defendant, enter judgment in favor of Plaintiffs, and close this case. Signed by Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle on 4/18/2022.”
Contractual incorporation of American Arbitration Association rules can delegate gateway arbitrability questions to the arbitrator. In Cartesian Products, that delegation supported compelling arbitration and staying the copyright and trade-secret action.
“The arbitration clauses’ incorporation of the AAA’s rules is clear and unmistakable evidence that Cartesian and Construct Software Technologies agreed to arbitrate the question of whether Cartesian’s claims are arbitrable.”
For Section 2254 jurisdiction, collateral consequences from an expired conviction are not enough. In Stabile, sex-offender registration did not place the petitioner in custody under the completed sentence, and the petition was also untimely.
“once the sentence imposed for a conviction has completely expired, the collateral consequences of that conviction are not themselves sufficient to render an individual ‘in custody’”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“ORDER granting summary judgment to Plaintiffs and against Defendants on Counts I, II, and III. The Mask Mandate is declared unlawful, vacated, and remanded to the CDC. The Court directs the Clerk to terminate President Biden as a defendant, enter judgment in favor of Plaintiffs, and close this case. Signed by Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle on 4/18/2022.”
“ORDER granting summary judgment to Plaintiffs and against Defendants on Counts I, II, and III. [The same order denies Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment, Doc 45, by granting Plaintiffs' cross-motion and vacating the challenged rule.]”
“Stabile’s petition for writ of habeas corpus, (Doc. 1), is DISMISSED without prejudice.”
“Defendants’ Motions to Compel Arbitration (Doc. 18) is GRANTED.”
“This case is STAYED.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 280 days (N = 1).
Median motion-to-ruling time: 75 days (N = 2).
The oldest reviewed cases were filed from 1994 through 2018 and reassigned to Judge Mizelle after her November 2020 commission. Nearly all terminated in 2021 as she cleared an inherited group of habeas and prisoner matters. Because those cases largely reflect her predecessors' management, their full durations are not attributed to her. The description is therefore limited and should not be read as a caseload-wide rate.
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