LaShonda Annette Hunt
How Judge Hunt rules, drawn from 18 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
How Judge Hunt decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
At the pleading stage she applies the ordinary plausibility standard and lets claims through where the allegations, taken as true with reasonable inferences in the plaintiff's favor, state a plausible theory: including a Section 1557 sexual-orientation discrimination claim and a due-process-notice claim, both of which survived dismissal.
“Because Plaintiff has adequately alleged that the policy discriminates against those people based only on their sexual orientation, the Court denies the motion to dismiss.”
In Social Security appeals she requires the ALJ to build an 'accurate and logical bridge' from the evidence to the conclusion and will remand where the step-five analysis is unexplained.
“Because she did not provide that information, the Court cannot find that an accurate and logical bridge has been built between the evidence and her step-five conclusion.”
Procedural preferences
She prunes complaints claim-by-claim rather than wholesale: a single MTD or MSJ order routinely dismisses some counts while letting others proceed (FTCA indemnification dismissed but negligence/contribution kept; ISL claim dismissed but the spoofing claim kept; SJ granted on some contract issues, denied where a material-fact dispute remained).
“For all the foregoing reasons, Defendant's Motion to Dismiss [21] is granted in part as to the indemnification claim (Count I) and denied as to the remaining negligence and contribution claims (Counts II, III, IV, V).”
Cautions
Substantive-due-process claims against police/municipal defendants must clear the demanding 'shocks the conscience' bar; an allegation that officers failed to pursue an assailant is not enough and will draw dismissal.
“Earley has not plausibly alleged that the officers' decision not to pursue Brownlee shocks the conscience.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“For the following reasons, Defendants' motion to dismiss [14] is granted and Plaintiff's complaint [1] is dismissed without prejudice.”
“For the foregoing reasons, Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment [12] is granted, and the Commissioner's Motion for Summary Judgment [17] is denied.”
“For all the foregoing reasons, Defendant's Motion to Dismiss [21] is granted in part as to the indemnification claim (Count I) and denied as to the remaining negligence and contribution claims (Counts II, III, IV, V).”
“Currently pending before the Court is Defendants' motion for summary judgment. For the following reasons, Defendants' motion [112] is granted in part and denied in part.”
“Defendant's Motion to Dismiss [15] is denied.”
“For the reasons stated above, Defendants' second motion to dismiss [13] is denied.”
“For the reasons that follow, Defendants' motions (Case No. 20-cv-04947, Dkt. 52; Case No. 20-cv-04948, Dkt. 50) are denied in part and granted in part.”
“For all the foregoing reasons, Defendants’ motions to dismiss are granted, and the CAC is dismissed without prejudice. Plaintiffs are granted leave to file an amended class action complaint consistent with this ruling by 2/7/25.”
“For all the foregoing reasons, Defendant’s motion for summary judgment is granted.”
“For all the foregoing reasons, Plaintiff’s combined motion for class certification and motion to bar defense expert Jan Kostyun is granted as to class certification and denied as to excluding Kostyun.”
“Defendants’ cross-motion to bar Plaintiff’s expert Aaron Woolfson is denied.”
“For all the foregoing reasons, Defendants’ motion is granted and Plaintiff’s claims are dismissed for failure to exhaust administrative remedies.”
“For all the foregoing reasons, Defendant’s motion to dismiss is granted, Plaintiff’s complaint is dismissed without prejudice for lack of jurisdiction, and the motion to intervene is terminated as moot.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 168 days (N = 15).
Judge Hunt's reviewed docket includes immigration-delay suits, consumer-credit disputes, insurance coverage, intellectual-property enforcement, copyright, employee-benefit collection, product liability, aviation, prisoner civil-rights matters, and a criminal calendar.
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