Donald Douglas Alsop

How Judge Alsop rules, drawn from 25 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Court
United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
Position
district
Appointed by
Gerald Ford (Republican)
Commissioned
1974-12-20
Education
University of Minnesota (B.S.L., 1950); University of Minnesota Law School (LL.B., 1952)
Signed orders read
25

How Judge Alsop decides

Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Cautions

When evaluating waiver of procedural protections, Alsop required meaningful knowledge of available review.

“Consenting to the sale of the farm absent knowledge that the liquidation decision is appealable is hardly a knowing waiver of the procedural protections FmHA has so carefully provided at the acceleration and later stages preceding foreclosure.”

Signed rulings

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

Haghighi v. Russian-American Broadcasting Co.
· 1996-11-08

Alsop resolved whether a mediator could testify at a hearing on a disputed settlement, but did not decide the settlement-enforcement motion.

Royalton State Bank v. United States
· 1989-08-21
Motions to dismiss (defendant United States) Granted

“Defendant’s motion to dismiss is GRANTED.”

Burns v. Ersek
· 1984-05-08
Appeal of magistrate order (plaintiff Burns) Denied

“plaintiff’s appeal of that order is hereby denied.”

United States v. Maier
· 1982-01-08
Motion to suppress (criminal defendant Maier) Granted

“the motion of defendant to suppress the physical evidence obtained as a result of search and seizure is granted, and such evidence is suppressed.”

Severtson v. Phillips Beverage Co.
· 1992-01-24
Motions to strike (defendants Phillips Beverage Co. and related parties) Granted

“The affidavit of Timothy W. Zastoupil is STRICKEN;”

Appeal of magistrate order (defendants Phillips Beverage Co. and related parties) Denied

“The orders of United States Magistrate Judge Franklin L. Noel filed December 17, 1991, docket entries 104 and 105, are AFFIRMED in all respects.”

Rhude v. United States
· 1984-08-01
Summary judgment (plaintiffs Rhude) Denied

“plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment be denied.”

Summary judgment (defendant United States) Granted

“defendant’s motion for summary judgment be granted.”

Wagner v. International Harvester Company
· 1978-06-22
Motion for partial summary judgment (defendant International Harvester Company) Granted

“the motion of International Harvester Company for partial summary judgment with respect to the claims of Anne Wagner be and hereby is granted.”

George Ex Rel. George v. Schweiker
· 1982-08-04
Motion for partial summary judgment (plaintiff Angelique George) Granted

“the motion of the plaintiff for summary judgment is granted.”

Livingston v. ITT Consumer Financial Corp.
· 1992-06-04
Dispositive motion (defendants ITT Consumer Financial Corp. and related entities) Granted in part

“For the reasons set forth below, defendants’ motion will be granted in part and denied in part.”

Hill v. Chemical Bank
· 1992-08-04
Motions to remand (plaintiff cardholders) Denied

“plaintiffs’ motions to remand the instant actions are DENIED.”

E. M. Trucks, Inc. v. Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Plan
· 1981-07-06
Motion for leave to amend (plaintiff E. M. Trucks, Inc.) Granted

“plaintiff be and it hereby is granted leave to file an Amended Complaint.”

Summary judgment (plaintiff E. M. Trucks, Inc.) Denied

“the motion of plaintiff for summary judgment be and it hereby is denied.”

Summary judgment (defendant pension plan) Denied

“the motion of defendant for summary judgment be and it hereby is denied.”

Defenders of the Wildlife v. Hodel
· 1989-02-15
Summary judgment (defendant Secretary of the Interior) Denied

“Defendant’s motion for summary judgment is DENIED;”

Summary judgment (plaintiffs Defenders of Wildlife and related groups) Granted

“Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment is GRANTED;”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 90 days (N = 10).

Median motion-to-ruling time: 32.5 days (N = 2).

The fixed-seed sample included employment, benefits, product-liability, contract, environmental, negotiable-instrument, and criminal matters. All ten sampled matters were terminated.

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