Edward A. Bobrick
How Judge Bobrick rules, drawn from 24 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Bobrick no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Bobrick decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Bobrick placed the burden on the party resisting discovery to establish that the work-product doctrine protected the requested documents.
“The burden here is on the defendant to establish that the work product doctrine immunizes the documents at issue from discovery.”
In a pleading dispute, Bobrick accepted allegations made on information and belief under Rule 8's notice-pleading standard.
“Such allegations are acceptable under the liberal, notice pleading requirements of Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(a).”
On Social Security review, Bobrick emphasized that a reviewing court may not reweigh the administrative evidence or substitute its judgment for the agency's.
“The court may not reweigh the evidence, or substitute its judgment for that of the Social Security Administration.”
Procedural preferences
Bobrick treated psychotherapist-patient privilege as waivable but evaluated the scope of waiver case by case.
“Like other privileges, however, the psychotherapist-patient privilege can be waived.”
Bobrick denied amendment after reviewing the proposed pleading and finding the new theories futile.
“In this case, review of plaintiffs proposed amendments demonstrates that they would be futile and her Rule 15(a) motion must be denied.”
Bobrick described reconsideration as a limited remedy, not a second opportunity for arguments or evidence that could have been presented earlier.
“they are not opportunities to rehash old arguments or submit new evidence that could have already been presented.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the plaintiffs motion to strike the defendant’s affirmative defenses is DENIED”
“plaintiffs motion to dismiss defendant’s counterclaim is GRANTED”
“the defendant’s motion to dismiss the plaintiffs complaint is hereby DENIED.”
“the defendant’s motion to dismiss the plaintiffs complaint is hereby DENIED.”
“the defendant’s motion for summary judgment is GRANTED”
“the plaintiffs motion for summary judgment is DENIED.”
“defendants’ motion for summary judgment is GRANTED.”
“defendant Blitstein’s motion to dismiss the complaint as to him is denied.”
“the request for extradition is hereby DENIED.”
“defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiffs complaint is DENIED.”
“the plaintiffs petition for an award of attorneys’ fees under EAJA is granted in the amount of $16,910.41.”
“CIGNA’s claim is hereby adjudicated as zero and is DENIED.”
“Plaintiffs motion to compel compliance by Joel Wyler with requests for production of documents in GRANTED, as limited by this court’s order of November 15, 2001.”
“it is hereby ordered that Sandor Molnar be released from custody upon the posting of real property as security for $100,000 bond”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Twenty assigned matters were enumerated. Five terminated civil matters were sampled across railroad injury, forfeiture, employment, and environmental cases. Their durations ranged from 517 to 2,154 days, with a median of 759 days; every sampled entry stream was empty, so no docket motion or timing claim is made.
A historical record
Judge Bobrick no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.