Douglas J. Quivey
How Judge Quivey rules, drawn from 7 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
About Judge Quivey
Douglas J. Quivey serves as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Central District of Illinois in Springfield. Before his appointment, he practiced law privately and worked as an assistant federal public defender. He earned his law degree from the University of Illinois.
Judge Quivey's practices and standing orders
The court's website lists no individual practices or standing orders of Judge Quivey'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).
How Judge Quivey decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In Larkin’s prison medical-care case, Quivey found that expert testimony and the medical history created a trial issue about whether critical information had been ignored.
“a factfinder could find that Dr. Baker ignored critical information.”
In Daniels’s grievance dispute, Quivey held that the filed grievances gave adequate notice by identifying the responsible department, timeframe, and problem.
“The Court finds that Plaintiff’s grievances provided sufficient information to satisfy the grievance rules.”
Procedural preferences
In Porter’s arbitration dispute, Quivey required the contracts to name the proposed third-party beneficiary or clearly identify its class.
“being labeled as a third-party beneficiary is not the standard—being named or classified as one is.”
Cautions
In Craig’s Section 1983 action, Quivey rejected supervisory status alone as a basis for personal liability.
“A plaintiff may not hold an official liable under § 1983 just because that official may have been in charge.”
In Stuebs’s discovery dispute, Quivey found the manager’s accident report protected as work product because the known circumstances made litigation reasonably anticipated.
“the manager’s incident report is protected from disclosure based upon the work product doctrine because it was prepared in anticipation of litigation.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“ORDER granting Oral Motion to Unseal Case as to David Hernandez (1). Entered by Magistrate Judge Douglas J Quivey on 8/26/2025.”
“Plaintiff’s Motion for Leave to File an Amended Complaint [62] is DENIED.”
“Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment [65] is DENIED.”
“Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment [29] is GRANTED.”
“WHEREFORE, Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment, (Doc. 41), is DENIED.”
“For the foregoing reasons, Sedgwick’s Motion to Compel Arbitration (Doc. 13) is GRANTED.”
“both the Village of Brighton Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment, (Doc. 73), and the Macoupin County Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment, (Doc. 78), are GRANTED in part and DENIED in part.”
“Plaintiff’s motion to compel (Doc. 47) and Plaintiff’s supplemental motion to compel (Doc. 58) are DENIED.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median motion-to-ruling time: 1 days (N = 25).
The eight reviewed matters span prisoner civil-rights, medical-care, employment, arbitration, data-privacy, product-liability, fatal-shooting, and criminal-duty disputes. The targeted selection supports motion-level examples, not a caseload tendency.
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 months | 0 |
| Bench trials submitted more than six months | 0 |
| Bankruptcy appeals pending more than six months | 0 |
| Social Security appeals pending more than six months | 0 |
| Civil cases pending more than three years | 3 |
| Report | Motions over six months | Cases over three years |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | 0 | 3 |
| Sep 2025 | 0 | 4 |
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 Central District of Illinois, not for Judge Quivey: 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.
| Cases | Median time | |
|---|---|---|
| All civil cases closed | 760 | 7.3 months |
| Closed with no court action | 315 | 6.2 months |
| Closed before pretrial | 438 | 8.4 months |
| Closed during trial | 7 | not reported |
| 12 months ending | Cases closed | Median time |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | 760 | 7.3 months |
| Sep 2024 | 704 | 8 months |
| Sep 2023 | 625 | 10.8 months |
| Sep 2022 | 637 | 11.7 months |
| Sep 2021 | 684 | 9.9 months |
| Sep 2020 | 629 | 10.4 months |
| Sep 2019 | 653 | 10.1 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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