Beth W. Jantz

United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois magistrate 6 signed orders read

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.

Social security appeal
N = 3
Granted: 2Denied: 1 counts only
Summary judgment
N = 1
Granted: 1 counts only
Conditional certification
N = 1
Granted in part: 1 counts only
Motions to compel
N = 1
Denied: 1 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.

Jamie P. v. O'Malley (Commissioner of Social Security)
1:22-cv-00499 · 2024-03-01
Social security appeal (plaintiff) Granted

“Plaintiff's request to reverse the Commissioner's final decision [dkt. 1; dkt. 13; dkt 16] is granted and the Commissioner's Motion for Summary Judgement [dkt. 14; dkt. 15] is denied. The Commissioner's decision is reversed, and this matter is remanded for further proceedings”

Jacklin D. v. Kijakazi (Commissioner of Social Security)
1:19-cv-02361 · 2022-03-16
Social security appeal (plaintiff) Granted

“Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment [dkt. 20] is granted, and the Commissioner's motion for summary judgment [dkt. 27] is denied. The Commissioner's decision is reversed, and this matter is remanded”

Tanishia T. v. Kijakazi (Commissioner of Social Security)
1:20-cv-06293 · 2022-09-06
Social security appeal (plaintiff) Denied

“Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment [dkt. 16] is denied, and the Commissioner's motion for summary judgment [dkt. 22] is granted. The Court affirms the Commissioner's final decision.”

Hunter v. WirelessPCS Chicago LLC
1:18-cv-00980 · 2022-03-23
Conditional certification (plaintiff) Granted in part

“Plaintiffs' renewed motion for conditional certification and issuance of notice pursuant to U.S.C. § 216(b), [dkt. 194], is granted in part and denied in part, consistent with this opinion.”

Clarson v. Scorpio Excavating, Inc.
1:19-cv-05488 · 2020-09-16
Summary judgment (plaintiff) Granted

“the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment, [dkt. 39; dkt. 41].”

Jokich v. Rush University Medical Center
1:18-cv-07885 · 2020-04-01
Motions to compel (plaintiff) Denied

“Dr. Jokich's Motion to Compel Production of Documents Responsive to Second Request for Production based on Rush's Subject-Matter Waiver of Attorney-Client Privilege [66] is denied in part and moot in part. Requests 1-4 are denied for the reasons stated in this opinion.”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 454 days (N = 1).

Median motion-to-ruling time: 286 days (N = 2).

Two angles. (1) Her 2026 DIRECT/duty docket (assigned_judge='Beth Jantz'): criminal duty-magistrate work -- search/seizure warrants on mail packages and cellphones (1:26-mc-*), petty offenses (1:26-po-*), and criminal complaints (US v. Palmowski/Lawrence). (2) Her CONSENT merits subject matter (GovInfo + the two pulled dockets): a Social Security appeal docket (DIB/SSI, 636(c) consent), FLSA/wage collective actions (Hunter v. WirelessPCS), and ERISA/MPPAA withdrawal-liability collection (Clarson v. Scorpio). Plus referred discovery on other judges' civil dockets.