Edward Julien Moinet
How Judge Moinet rules, drawn from 13 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Moinet no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled here.
About Judge Moinet
Edward Julien Moinet was a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Appointed by President Calvin Coolidge, Judge Moinet received a commission on December 19, 1927. Judge Moinet assumed senior status on February 28, 1946 and served until death on December 23, 1952.
How Judge Moinet decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Moinet treated concrete threats to patent licensing and business relationships as sufficient to create an actual controversy for declaratory relief.
“such petition alleges and sets forth an actual controversy between the parties herein”
He protected a manufacturing process as a trade secret even when experimentation used obvious means, because the successful combination retained independent value.
“The fact that the means, by which the making of Dirigold was discovered, are obvious, and a result of experimentation, does not destroy the value of the discovery to the one who made it.”
Procedural preferences
In Connecticut Mutual, Moinet granted dismissal of the insurer’s equity bills because fraud could be litigated as a defense in the pending actions at law.
“plaintiffs have a complete and adequate remedy at law and that a bill in equity cannot be maintained”
In reorganization, he treated feasibility as an independent requirement even when competing plans could each be described as fair and equitable.
“while both the plan of the Trustee and the plan of Mr. Shapero are ‘fair and equitable,’ only the plan of the Trustee is ‘feasible,’”
Cautions
Moinet enforced an unambiguous policy exclusion rather than extending an incontestability clause to disability and double-indemnity benefits.
“the language of the incontestable clause here invoked is’ unambiguous and does not apply to the disability and double indemnity provisions of the policy.”
He treated taxes accruing during a receivership as administrative expenses payable from funds under the receiver's control.
“All taxes falling due during the receivership are payable out of the funds in the hands of the receiver as' administrative expenses of the receivership.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the motions to dismiss the said bills of complaint are granted and orders accordingly entered.”
“such exceptions filed herein, respectively, are overruled”
“all tax liens asserted thereon in behalf of said city, county, or state are discharged, and injunctive relief herein is allowed.”
“Accordingly, an order may be prepared and submitted, denying the motion to dismiss the petition filed herein.”
“an injunction in accordance with the prayer of the bill of complaint should be issued against him.”
Moinet granted the United States foreclosure of an estate-tax lien against most of the listed parcels while excluding parcels protected by pre-death mortgages and ordering assets marshaled.
After previously reopening the case on a motion, the court entered judgment rescinding the policy’s disability and double-indemnity provisions. The reopening motion was disposed of before this opinion.
Moinet reaffirmed relief protecting the Dirigold manufacturing process after finding that controlled temperatures and production knowledge constituted a valuable trade secret.
Moinet dismissed the theatre operators' complaint after finding fraudulent management, cancelled their lease on the owners' cross-bill, and awarded the owners specified liquidated amounts.
In six consolidated denaturalization proceedings, Moinet found that each defendant had procured citizenship by fraud and ordered the naturalization decrees revoked and certificates cancelled.
The court entered a permanent injunction on the underlying rent-control complaint after adopting the special master’s findings. The opinion does not expressly dispose of the defendants’ objections to the report.
“I am therefore approving the plan of the Trustee, which in my opinion complies with the provisions of Section 216 of the Bankruptcy Act and is fair and equitable and feasible.”
“Mr. Shapero’s plan is not found worthy of consideration and is therefore disapproved.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No case-level docket record assigned under Moinet'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 Moinet no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled here. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.