Colin H. Lindsay

How Judge Lindsay rules, drawn from 4 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Court
United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
Position
magistrate
Commissioned
2015-01-01
Education
West Virginia University (undergraduate, political science); Emory University School of Law (J.D.)
Signed orders read
4

How Judge Lindsay decides

Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Procedural preferences

On discovery disputes, grants motions to compel in part and denies them in part, tailoring the relief rather than granting or denying wholesale.

“DN 99 is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part.”

Signed rulings

A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.

Schnatter v. 247 Group, LLC
3:20-cv-00003-BJB-CHL · 2021-10-28
Motions to compel (defendant) Granted in part

“DN 99 is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part.”

Braun v. Norton Healthcare, Inc.
3:24-cv-00039-DJH-CHL · 2025-12-17
Motions to compel (plaintiff) Granted in part

“Plaintiff's Motion to Compel (DN 36) is GRANTED IN PART.”

Spikes v. Humana Inc.
3:24-cv-00434-RGJ-CHL · 2026-03-23
Motions to compel (plaintiff) Granted in part

“IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel (DN 70) is GRANTED IN PART. Defendant shall again send the requested salary analysis documents for Plaintiff’s previously held positions beginning with the year 2017. The motion is denied in all other respects.”

Farmer v. United Parcel Service Co.
3:24-cv-00460-CHB-CHL · 2026-08-04
Motions to compel (defendant) Granted in part

“The Motion to Compel filed by Defendant (DN 34) is GRANTED in part.”

Motion to supplement discovery relief (defendant) Granted in part

“The Motion to Supplement filed by Defendant (DN 37) is GRANTED in part.”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

Small sample of dockets naming Colin H. Lindsay as assigned judge (his own consent-jurisdiction docket, where parties agreed under 28 U.S.C. 636(c) to have him decide the case to final judgment), drawn from his first two years on the bench. Both sampled cases are Social Security disability appeals.

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