Celeste F. Bremer
How Judge Bremer decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Cautions
In the consent summary-judgment rulings read here Bremer routinely DISPOSES OF FEDERAL CLAIMS ON THE MERITS AND THEN DECLINES SUPPLEMENTAL JURISDICTION over the pendent state-law claims (dismissing without prejudice or remanding under 28 U.S.C. 1367). Practical lesson for counsel: when the federal hook is vulnerable to summary judgment before her, expect the state claims to be sent back to state court rather than decided.
“For the reasons set forth below, summary judgment is granted on count III. As for Quick's remaining state claims against DCI, and Musgrove and Daniels, all counts are dismissed without prejudice”
Motion outcomes
Counted from classified signed orders only. Percentages are shown only where the sample is large enough to be meaningful; smaller samples are reported as raw counts.
| Summary judgment N = 4 |
Granted: 2Granted in part: 2 | counts only |
A "1 of 1" is one ruling, not a tendency. Treat small samples as illustrative, not predictive.
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the Court denies Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment, (Clerk's No. 8), on the state claims for false arrest, malicious prosecution, and intentional infliction of emotional distress; on the claim for immunity under Iowa Code 670.4(3); and on the claim for qualified immunity with respect to the section 1983 claim based on false arrest. The Court grants the Motion on the issue of Union County's liability under section 1983.”
“For the reasons set forth below, summary judgment is granted on count III. As for Quick's remaining state claims against DCI, and Musgrove and Daniels, all counts are dismissed without prejudice”
“3. Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment (Clerk's No. 29) is granted on the following claims: 4. Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment (Clerk's No. 29) is denied on the following claims”
“Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment on Counts I and II (federal gender and age discrimination claims) is granted. Plaintiff failed to create a genuine issue of material fact suggesting that Defendant's proffered reasons for discharge”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 487 days (N = 11).
Median motion-to-ruling time: 92 days (N = 2).
Sample of ~21 dockets that docket lists with Celeste Bremer as assigned judge, filed 2008-2021. Nature-of-suit mix below is from case-level metadata; criminal-magistrate (mj) and miscellaneous (mc) matters are listed separately and excluded from the civil duration sample.