Charlton Reid Beattie

How Judge Beattie rules, drawn from 9 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Court
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Position
district
Appointed by
Calvin Coolidge (Republican)
Commissioned
1925-01-21
Education
University of Virginia, 1889; University of Virginia School of Law, LL.B., 1891
Signed orders read
9

Signed rulings

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

United States v. Shelton
Motion to remit bail forfeiture (surety) Denied

“The court is absolutely without power to grant the motion, and it is denied.”

United States v. Mullen
Motion to quash (defendant) Denied

“For the above reasons, the defendant’s motions were overruled.”

Motion for new trial (defendant) Denied
Motion in arrest of judgment (defendant) Denied
In re Companhia de Navegacao Lloyd Brasileiro
Motion for commission (claimants) Granted

“a dedimus potestatesm will issue as prayed for.”

McNally v. Jackson
Request for injunction (plaintiff) Denied

“the plaintiff’s bill must bo dismissed”

In re Companhia de Navegacao Lloyd Brasileiro
Exception to pleadings (petitioner) Denied

“the exception herein filed by the petitioner to the answers of the claimants he overruled”

Objections to interrogatories (petitioner) Denied

“each and every one of the objections, made by petitioner to the various interrogatories proposed to be pro*244pounded by claimants to the various witnesses in Yera Cruz, be, and the same are at this time, overruled”

Jordan v. Frederick Leyland & Co.
Exception of no cause of action (defendant) Granted

“In the absence of such an. amendment within ten days from this date, the defendant’s exception of no cause of action is sustained, and the petition is dismissed, at the cost of the plaintiff.”

McLaughlin v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Motions to remand (plaintiff) Denied

“plaintiff’s motion to remand the case to the district court for the parish of St. Mary, La,, must be and is denied.”

United States ex rel. Austin v. Williams
Habeas petition (relator) Denied

“it is ordered and decreed that the writ of habeas corpus be discharged, and that the relator be remanded to the custody of the respondent.”

United States v. Lindsly
Motion for new trial (defendant) Denied

“For the foregoing reasons, the motion for a new trial is denied.”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

The recoverable decisions span criminal procedure, admiralty discovery, federal jurisdiction, workers' compensation, extradition habeas, and bail forfeiture. The small corpus cannot support a career-wide caseload estimate.

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