Arthur Jehu Stanley Jr.
Judge Stanley no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Stanley decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Stanley treated incapacity, the opposing party’s knowledge, and lack of benefit as sufficient pleaded facts to permit an estate’s cancellation claim to proceed.
“These allegations must be accepted as true for the purpose of the motion to dismiss.”
He found a patent-fee award justified when the infringement was deliberate and undertaken in bad faith.
“I find the actions of the defendants in infringing to have been purposeful, vexatious and in bad faith.”
Procedural preferences
He viewed dismissal for discovery noncompliance as a severe sanction reserved for willful refusal after an order compelling compliance.
“Rule 37(b) authorizes such drastic action only when the refusal is willful and, I feel, should be resorted to only after disobedience of an order compelling an answer under Rule 37(a).”
He enforced interrogatory deadlines by treating a months-late objection as waived.
“By such delay, plaintiff waived its right to object to the interrogatories.”
Cautions
He would not compel arbitration where the parties’ agreement made the procedure discretionary.
“It is not for the court to fashion a contract for the parties nor to require that to be done which the contract makes discretionary.”
In disability review, he distinguished inability to obtain a job from statutory incapacity to work.
“the test, as set out above, is the lack of capacity to work, not inability to find a job.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the motion of the defendant for summary judgment will be granted and the motions of the plaintiff and the intervening defendant for summary judgment will each be denied.”
“The defendant’s motion to dismiss will be denied.”
“Defendant’s motion will be denied.”
“this second motion will not be entertained.”
“The order of the referee is approved and affirmed for the reasons herein stated.”
“The findings and conclusions of the referee are approved and the order of the referee is affirmed.”
“this cause should be remanded to the District Court of Morton County, Kansas. It is so ordered.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 889 days (N = 20).
All 20 located assigned cases in the 1991–1992 historical cohort were terminated habeas matters; this narrow surviving cohort is not a career-wide caseload measure.
A historical record
Judge Stanley 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.