Levin Hicks Campbell
How Judge Campbell rules, drawn from 5 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Campbell no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Campbell decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Campbell granted habeas relief where a flag-treatment statute swept protected expression into vague language that invited selective enforcement.
“As worded, the statute sets ‘a net large enough to catch all possible offenders,’ leaving it to the police and the courts to pick and choose whom to prosecute and convict.”
Procedural preferences
He applied the narrow statutory standard governing review of railroad adjustment-board awards and declined to disturb a result that had a rational basis.
“the Court cannot say, and I do not find, that the Board’s decision was wholly baseless and without reason.”
In preliminary-injunction review, he weighed the speculative employee benefit of relief against the concrete risk that blocking an airline merger could imperil the carrier.
“As against the highly speculative gain to the employees of an injunction, one must weigh the more positive danger to Northeast’s future existence should the merger be aborted.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Defendant’s motion for summary judgment is allowed.”
“Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment is denied.”
“three-judge court are denied.”
After trial, Campbell entered judgment for the insurer because the insureds' blasting method increased the hazard beyond ordinary construction activity.
“Accordingly, an order is to be entered that the writ of habeas corpus issue and that the petitioner be released from the defendant’s custody.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No assigned-case timeline was available for this nine-month district tenure. The located writings cover labor, insurance, civil rights, habeas corpus, and public employment, but they do not establish the distribution of Campbell's full district caseload.
A historical record
Judge Campbell 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.