Arthur J. Boylan
How Judge Boylan decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In Social Security appeals Boylan recommends affirming the Commissioner when substantial evidence supports the ALJ -- including crediting a consultative examiner's no-restriction opinion over the claimant's subjective symptom reports when the medical record does not corroborate worsening. A claimant's good-faith but medically-unsupported account of worsening symptoms (here, escalating post-accident headaches) is not enough to overturn the ALJ. Both of his SS R&Rs read here were adopted over the claimant's objection.
“the Court concludes, as the ALJ and Chief Magistrate Judge Boylan did, that that assertion, while perhaps made in good faith, is not supported by the medical evidence. ... substantial evidence supports the ALJ's determination that the Plaintiff remained able to perform work in the national economy after September 2005.”
Cautions
Boylan recommended dismissal of the William B. Butler mass mortgage 'show-me-the-note' filings; his R&R was adopted and the case dismissed with prejudice. These boilerplate foreclosure-challenge suits fared poorly before him.
“The Court ADOPTS the Report and Recommendation of Chief United States Magistrate Judge Arthur J. Boylan dated November 21, 2013 ... Defendants' Motion to Dismiss [Docket No. 6] is GRANTED. This matter is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”
Motion outcomes
Counted from classified signed orders only. Percentages are shown only where the sample is large enough to be meaningful; smaller samples are reported as raw counts.
| Summary judgment N = 4 |
Granted: 2Denied: 2 | counts only |
| Motions to dismiss N = 1 |
Granted: 1 | counts only |
| Habeas petition N = 1 |
Denied: 1 | counts only |
A "1 of 1" is one ruling, not a tendency. Treat small samples as illustrative, not predictive.
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. No. [6]) is DENIED.”
“Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. No. [15]) is GRANTED.”
“Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. No. [6]) is DENIED.”
“Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. No. [9]) is GRANTED.”
“Kelly Jones' Motion to Vacate Sanctions under 28 U.S.C. 2241 and Constitutional Amendment 8 [Docket No. 1] is DENIED. This matter is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”
“Defendants' Motion to Dismiss [Docket No. 6] is GRANTED. This matter is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Case-level docket for Boylan as assigned magistrate is dominated by criminal-duty matters: initial appearances/complaints (US v. Salad 10-mj-532, US v. Portillo-Uranga 05-mj-480, US v. Betcher 05-mj-356) and many sealed search-warrant / 'USA v.' magistrate ('mg') matters from 1999-2010. His civil R&R work (SS appeals, prisoner 2241, mortgage MTDs) surfaces through the district-judge adoption orders in the reasoning layer rather than as docket entries under his name. Nature-of-suit fields blank; mix inferred from captions and docket-number type.