Gretchen Suzanne Lund
How Judge Lund decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
On employment-discrimination summary-judgment motions Lund grants the defense where the plaintiff cannot meet the legitimate-expectations element or identify a similarly situated comparator (McDonnell Douglas/Ortiz), and where alleged harassment is neither severe nor pervasive.
“The Court hereby GRANTS the Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment [DE 41]. The Court DIRECTS the Clerk of Court to enter judgment against Plaintiff and in favor of the Defendants. The Plaintiff takes nothing by her Complaint.”
On state-law claims at the pleading stage, she tests each required legal interest and mental-state element against concrete factual allegations; an expected inheritance did not supply a vested property interest, and conclusory self-dealing allegations did not plead conversion intent or fraud.
“For these reasons, Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss [DE 23] is GRANTED without prejudice. The Court DIRECTS the Clerk of Court to DISMISS this case and enter judgment accordingly.”
Procedural preferences
She enforces Local Rule 56-1: where the nonmovant fails to controvert the movant's statement of material facts with record citations and files an improper affidavit, she accepts the movant's facts as true.
“The Court hereby GRANTS Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment. [DE 19]. The Court DIRECTS the Clerk of Court to enter judgment against Plaintiff and in favor of Defendant. Plaintiff takes nothing by his Complaint.”
In prisoner screening, she allowed amendment when a deficient complaint might be curable, but dismissed after the amended complaint repeated defects and further amendment would be futile. A request for preliminary relief also failed when the operative complaint stated no viable claim.
“For these reasons, the court: (1) DENIES Hale’s Motion for Response (ECF 21); and (2) DISMISSES this case under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The Court hereby GRANTS the Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment [DE 41]. The Court DIRECTS the Clerk of Court to enter judgment against Plaintiff and in favor of the Defendants. The Plaintiff takes nothing by her Complaint.”
“both Defendant Assemblers' Motion for Summary Judgment [DE 47] and Defendant Home Depot's Motion for Summary Judgment [DE 53] are GRANTED. The Court DIRECTS the Clerk of Court to enter judgment against the Plaintiffs in favor of the Defendants. The Plaintiffs take nothing by his complaint.”
“The Court hereby GRANTS Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment. [DE 19]. The Court DIRECTS the Clerk of Court to enter judgment against Plaintiff and in favor of Defendant. Plaintiff takes nothing by his Complaint.”
“In his Response, Plaintiff agrees to "dismiss his race claim with prejudice." [DE 25, page 1]. No further analysis by the Court is necessary.”
“For these reasons, Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss [DE 23] is GRANTED without prejudice. The Court DIRECTS the Clerk of Court to DISMISS this case and enter judgment accordingly.”
“For these reasons, the court: (1) DENIES Alex L. Hale’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction (ECF 11); (2) GRANTS Alex L. Hale until April 15, 2025, to file an amended complaint;”
“For these reasons, the court: (1) DENIES Hale’s Motion for Response (ECF 21); and (2) DISMISSES this case under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A.”
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