Charles A. Stampelos

How Judge Stampelos rules, drawn from 27 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Court
United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida
Position
Magistrate judge
Commissioned
April 3, 2012
Education
University of Florida, B.A., 1972; University of Miami, M.A., 1973; College of William & Mary, J.D., 1976
Signed orders read
27

About Judge Stampelos

Charles A. Stampelos joined the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida as a magistrate judge in April 2012 and served a full eight-year term. He continues to sit on recall in Tallahassee after a career in private civil litigation.

Judge Stampelos's practices and standing orders

The court's website lists no individual practices or standing orders of Judge Stampelos's own (checked October 9, 2026), so the court's local rules and general orders are the place to look (court page ↗).

Standing orders for every case in this court

Orders the court applies to all of its cases, whichever judge has them, as published on the court's website (checked October 9, 2026).

Key rules from these orders · The court's local rules ↗

How Judge Stampelos decides

Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Procedural preferences

In Spaulding v. Bass, he recommended denying leave to file an eighth amended complaint after finding the proposed claims futile or untimely at that stage of the Section 1983 case.

“it is respectfully RECOMMENDED that Plaintiff's motion for leave to file an eighth amended complaint, doc. 209, be DENIED and this case be remanded for further proceedings.”

In Brown v. Florida, his report and recommendation gave the petitioner fourteen days to object and a final opportunity in that period to show good cause for the failure to respond.

“Petitioner shall have a 14 day period after service of this report and recommendation in which to file objections. This will also afford Petitioner a final opportunity to show good cause for this failure to respond.”

Signed rulings

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

Taylor v. Sikes
4:14-cv-00098
Summary judgment (defendant) Denied

“There is a genuine dispute of material fact on these issues and Defendant Sikes' motion for summary judgment should be denied.”

Summary judgment (plaintiff) Denied

“In light of the dispute of material fact, Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment should be denied as well.”

Spaulding v. Bass
4:11-cv-00605
Motion for leave to amend (plaintiff) Denied

“it is respectfully RECOMMENDED that Plaintiff's motion for leave to file an eighth amended complaint, doc. 209, be DENIED and this case be remanded for further proceedings.”

Franklin v. Peterson
4:16-cv-00470
Motion for leave to amend (plaintiff) Denied

“It is respectfully RECOMMENDED that Plaintiff's motion for leave to file an amended complaint, ECF No. 40, be DENIED because the proposed fourth amended complaint, ECF No. 40-1, fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted.”

United States v. Campbell
4:15-cv-00098
Motion for reconsideration (defendant) Denied

“it is respectfully RECOMMENDED that all four of Defendants' recent motions, ECF Nos. 54-57, be DENIED and Plaintiff should be required to submit a proposed form of foreclosure judgment within 30 days.”

Rolle v. Womble
4:14-cv-00341
Motion for injunctive relief (plaintiff) Denied

“it is respectfully RECOMMENDED that Plaintiff's complaint, doc. 1, be DISMISSED for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2), because it is barred by res judicata, and the motion for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief, doc. 3, be DENIED.”

Gonzalez v. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.
4:19-cv-00128

A Report and Recommendation on initial review of a pro se complaint seeking to undo state-court garnishment and foreclosure judgments. Judge Stampelos recommended sua sponte dismissal for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which bars a federal district court from reviewing and rejecting state-court judgments, and alternatively as barred by res judicata because the plaintiff's claims against a state judge had twice been dismissed.

Brown v. State of Florida
4:13-cv-00680

A short Report and Recommendation in a habeas matter where the petitioner failed to file an amended petition and in forma pauperis application after being ordered to do so. Judge Stampelos recommended sua sponte dismissal without prejudice under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(b) for failure to prosecute, while noting that the fourteen-day objection period would also give the petitioner a final opportunity to show good cause.

Curry v. Dudek
4:16-cv-00686

A short order accepting a pro se inmate's notice of voluntary dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(i). Because no defendant had been served, the dismissal was effective without a court order and the case was closed as a procedural disposition.

Thomas v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
4:18-cv-00519
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Granted

“Based on the foregoing, it is respectfully RECOMMENDED that Respondent's motion to dismiss, ECF No. 12, be GRANTED, and Petitioner's § 2254 petition, ECF No. 1, be DISMISSED for lack of jurisdiction as it is an unauthorized successive petition.”

Kennedy v. Inch
3:19-cv-00514
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Granted

“Based on the foregoing, it is respectfully RECOMMENDED that Respondent's motion to dismiss, ECF No. 15, be GRANTED, and Petitioner's § 2254 petition, ECF No. 1, be DISMISSED for lack of jurisdiction as it is an unauthorized successive petition.”

Guanchez-Vasquez v. Sessions
4:18-cv-00038
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Granted

“In light of Respondents' showing that Petitioner has been released from detention, it is respectfully RECOMMENDED that the motion to dismiss, ECF No. 7, be GRANTED, and the § 2241 petition be DISMISSED as moot since Petitioner has been granted the relief sought in the petition.”

Bergeron v. Pollack & Rosen
4:16-cv-00396
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Granted

“It is respectfully RECOMMENDED that Defendants' motion to dismiss, ECF No. 8, be GRANTED and Plaintiff's complaint, ECF No. 1, be DISMISSED for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted.”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

  • Judge Stampelos's directly assigned and consent docket centers on Social Security disability appeals and magistrate criminal-duty matters, including warrant and pen-register applications, with occasional consent civil cases.
  • Much of his other work consists of reports and recommendations in referred prisoner civil-rights, habeas, and in forma pauperis matters, which are not reflected in the case-assignment mix.

Pending matters in the official report

Reported by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts under the Civil Justice Reform Act, as of March 31, 2026.

Motions pending more than six months0
Bench trials submitted more than six months0
Bankruptcy appeals pending more than six months0
Social Security appeals pending more than six months0
Civil cases pending more than three years0
ReportMotions over six monthsCases over three years
Mar 202600
Sep 202500
Mar 202500
Sep 202400
Mar 202400
Sep 202300
Mar 202300
Sep 202200
Mar 202200
Sep 202100
Mar 202100
Sep 202000

A snapshot on that date: matters listed may since have been decided or reassigned. A motion referred to a magistrate judge is counted for both judges. Motions in multidistrict litigation, section 2255 cases and Social Security appeals are not counted, and a very large three-year count is generally a multidistrict docket. Source: Appendix A of the report (PDF); about the report.

How long civil cases take in this court

For the whole of United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, not for Judge Stampelos: median time from filing to disposition of the civil cases the court closed in the 12 months ending September 30, 2025, as reported by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

CasesMedian time
All civil cases closed148,42847.7 months
Closed with no court action303 months
Closed before pretrial148,38547.7 months
Closed during or after pretrial4not reported
Closed during trial9not reported
12 months endingCases closedMedian time
Sep 2025148,42847.7 months
Sep 2024140,47943.4 months
Sep 202336,30727.8 months
Sep 202257,84521.8 months
Sep 202114,9725.3 months
Sep 20206,0386.7 months
Sep 20191,1487.5 months

The table leaves out prisoner petitions, land condemnations, deportation reviews, recovery of overpayments and enforcement of judgments, and reports no median for fewer than 10 cases. A district that closed a large multidistrict litigation in the period shows very large counts and long medians for that year. Source: Table C-5, U.S. District Courts (spreadsheet).

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