Cale James Holder
How Judge Holder rules, drawn from 16 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Holder no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Holder decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In Merritt, Holder focused on which business the independent contractors were actually conducting when deciding whether workers’ compensation exclusivity barred the negligence action.
“The defendants were not conducting the business of Linaburry within the meaning of Section 5 of the Compensation Act of 1929.”
Procedural preferences
In Westward Coach, Holder used summary judgment where the trademark record presented no genuine factual dispute and the claims failed as a matter of law.
“There being no genuine issue as to any material fact, under the issues of the three counts of plaintiffs’ complaint and the answer thereto, and that plaintiffs have no claim thereunder based in law, the defendant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The motion to dismiss the amended complaint is sustained.”
“The motion for summary judgment is sustained”
“All of the motions and objections were overruled and denied.”
“The motion for summary judgment is denied.”
“The plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment in accordance with this opinion is sustained.”
“The defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment in accordance with this opinion is denied.”
“The Motion for Summary Judgment is sustained.”
“The Court now grants the amended motion to dismiss the indictment as based on ground two and denies the motion as based on ground one.”
“The plaintiff is entitled to the injunctive relief requested which injunction will be made effective six (6) months from this date”
“Ford Motor Company moved to withdraw that part of its Motion seeking Summary Judgment upon its counterclaim which was granted”
“the defendant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
“The defendant filed a Motion to Dismiss the complaint and it is denied.”
“said Motion to Dismiss should be granted.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 1813 days (N = 5).
The five sampled terminated matters were filed in 1976. Their archived metadata did not identify the nature of suit.
A historical record
Judge Holder 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.