Linda Rae Reade
How Judge Reade rules, drawn from 3 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
How Judge Reade decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Enforces commercial equipment-lease 'hell or high water' and waiver-of-defense clauses under Iowa law regardless of holder-in-due-course status, granting a financier summary judgment where the lessee accepted the equipment and the assignee took for value in good faith.
“For the foregoing reasons, the Motion (docket no. 24) is GRANTED. The Clerk of Court is DIRECTED to enter judgment in Plaintiff's favor in the amount of $214,081.38, with interest at the rate of 8% per annum.”
Procedural preferences
Resolves multiple motions in a single order and grants summary judgment in part, entering judgment on a proven breach-of-contract claim while leaving other damages and counterclaims for trial.
“FCS's Motion for Summary Judgment (docket no. 53) is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART. The court shall enter judgment in favor of FCS on its breach of contract claim, in the amount of $18,406.60, to be made payable from the court-attached funds currently held by the Clerk of Court. Assessment of all other damages and determination of the merits of Leading Edge's counterclaims remain pending for trial;”
Cautions
On Section 1983 summary judgment she dismisses claims against a county for lack of Monell liability while letting an adequately-supported First Amendment claim against the individual officer proceed.
“Defendants' ‘Motion for Summary Judgment’ (docket no. 7) is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART; (2) Plaintiff's claims against Benton County are DISMISSED;”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“For the foregoing reasons, the Motion (docket no. 24) is GRANTED. The Clerk of Court is DIRECTED to enter judgment in Plaintiff's favor in the amount of $214,081.38, with interest at the rate of 8% per annum.”
“Leading Edge's Motion to Strike (docket no. 77) is DENIED;”
“FCS's Motion for Summary Judgment (docket no. 53) is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART. The court shall enter judgment in favor of FCS on its breach of contract claim, in the amount of $18,406.60, to be made payable from the court-attached funds currently held by the Clerk of Court. Assessment of all other damages and determination of the merits of Leading Edge's counterclaims remain pending for trial;”
“Leading Edge's Motion to Vacate (docket no. 70) is DENIED.”
“Defendants' ‘Motion for Summary Judgment’ (docket no. 7) is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART; (2) Plaintiff's claims against Benton County are DISMISSED;”
“Plaintiff's ‘Motion for Leave to File First Amended and Substituted Complaint and Jury Demand’ (docket no. 18) is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 175 days (N = 9).
Median motion-to-ruling time: 61 days (N = 3).
The nine reviewed terminated civil cases are mostly from before Reade took senior status in 2017. They are weighted toward wage-and-hour and labor disputes, with additional employment, environmental, statutory, and motor-vehicle matters, and do not represent her full pre-2017 docket.
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