Lisa Ritchey Craig
How Judge Craig rules, drawn from 20 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
How Judge Craig decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
A timely remand request succeeds when the attempted removal was made by an entity that was not a party to the state action.
“a non-party does not have authority to remove a case from state court to federal court”
Procedural preferences
A self-represented plaintiff ordinarily receives an opportunity to amend when more careful pleading might state a claim.
“Plaintiff shall have twenty-one (21) days to amend the Complaint in accordance with this order.”
Cautions
Disputed evidence concerning intent and financial records can prevent summary judgment on discharge and dischargeability claims.
“summary judgment is not appropriate on any count of the Complaint”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Motion for Reconsideration (Doc. 98) is DENIED;”
“ORDERED that the Motions are GRANTED.”
“For the reasons stated above, the Motion to Strike is DENIED.”
“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Motion is DENIED.”
“IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT DHS’s Motion for Entry of Default Judgment is GRANTED”
“it is ORDERED that Plaintiff’s default judgment motion is GRANTED;”
“IT IS ORDERED that the Objection is DENIED.”
“IT IS ORDERED that the Motion to Strike Linda Hardin’s Errata Sheet (Doc. 139) is DENIED;”
“granting in part and denying in part the Motion for Summary Judgment filed by West Village Holdings, LLC”
“granted in part and denied in part the Motion for Summary Judgment filed by ONH Holdings, LLC”
“IT IS ORDERED that the Plaintiffs’ Motion to Strike Hardin’s Unauthorized Surreply (Doc. 19) is DENIED;”
“IT IS ORDERED that the Motion (Doc. 54) is DENIED.”
“Plaintiff’s request to strike the Answer is DENIED”
“Plaintiff’s request for dismissal of the Smith Counterclaim is STAYED”
“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Motion to Stay (Doc. 10) is GRANTED”
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