Arthur J. Tuttle
Judge Tuttle no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Tuttle decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Tuttle treated dominant visual similarity between competing product labels as sufficient for preliminary relief even without proof of a completed mistaken purchase.
“proof is not required of specific instances in which persons have actually been deceived thereby-”
He required allegations of fraud to be proved by clear and convincing evidence rather than inferred from weaknesses in the opposing party's presentation.
“It is an elementary legal principle that he who alleges fraud must establish it by clear and convincing evidence.”
Procedural preferences
Tuttle would not determine a prisoner's future good-time allowance before the sentence period and the prisoner's conduct were complete.
“The question of the allowance of good time is one for the Attorney General, acting upon the advice of the superintendent of the Unitea States Detention Farm at Milan, and is not a question for this court.”
He required an adverse claimant already in possession to receive plenary adjudication rather than summary disposition in bankruptcy court.
“cannot be compelled to litigate his right to such possession in summary proceedings in the bankruptcy court.”
Cautions
Tuttle treated a defendant's voluntary departure after trial began as a waiver of the right to remain present.
“the defendant Vassalo, by his voluntary departure and disappearance from the trial, waived his right to be present thereat”
He emphasized bankruptcy's equitable character when allowing a late government tax claim against assets that remained undistributed.
“The bankruptcy court, it must be remembered, is a court of equity.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The usual exemptions under the Michigan statute will therefore be allowed to each of the bankrupts.”
“It follows that the order of the referee must be set aside, and that leave should be granted to petitioner to join the trustee in bankruptcy herein as a party defendant to the suit in the state court.”
“the petition must be dismissed. An order to that effect will be entered.”
“the application for such injunction must be denied.”
“It follows that the objection that the court does not have jurisdiction must be, and is, overruled, and it is ordered that the petitioner be admitted as a citizen of the United States.”
“It follows that the referee erred in making the order here complained of, and that sueh order must be, and it hereby is, set aside”
“An order will be entered denying the petition.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No case-level docket record assigned under Tuttle's name was returned for his tenure. The profile therefore makes no claim about his complete caseload mix, case duration, administrative dispositions, or motion timing.
A historical record
Judge Tuttle 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.