Donald Douglas Alsop
How Judge Alsop rules, drawn from 28 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
About Judge Alsop
Donald Douglas Alsop is a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. Appointed by President Richard M. Nixon, Judge Alsop received a commission on December 20, 1974. Judge Alsop assumed senior status on August 28, 1992.
Judge Alsop's practices and standing orders
The court's website lists no individual practices or standing orders of Judge Alsop's own (checked October 9, 2026), so the court's local rules and general orders are the place to look (court page ↗).
Standing orders for every case in this court
Orders the court applies to all of its cases, whichever judge has them, as published on the court's website (checked October 9, 2026).
- Amended Administrative Order: Procedures for Storage and Management of Sealed Documents ↗
- General Order No. 1: Filing Sealed Documents with Highly Sensitive Information ↗
- General Order No. 2: Removing Sealed Documents with Highly Sensitive Information from CM/ECF ↗
- Administrative Order: Encryption of Electronic Materials and Cloud Storage Links ↗
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.
Alsop resolved whether a mediator could testify at a hearing on a disputed settlement, but did not decide the settlement-enforcement motion.
“Defendant’s motion to dismiss is GRANTED.”
“plaintiff’s appeal of that order is hereby denied.”
“the motion of defendant to suppress the physical evidence obtained as a result of search and seizure is granted, and such evidence is suppressed.”
“The affidavit of Timothy W. Zastoupil is STRICKEN;”
“The orders of United States Magistrate Judge Franklin L. Noel filed December 17, 1991, docket entries 104 and 105, are AFFIRMED in all respects.”
“plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment be denied.”
“defendant’s motion for summary judgment be granted.”
“the motion of International Harvester Company for partial summary judgment with respect to the claims of Anne Wagner be and hereby is granted.”
“the motion of the plaintiff for summary judgment is granted.”
“For the reasons set forth below, defendants’ motion will be granted in part and denied in part.”
“plaintiffs’ motions to remand the instant actions are DENIED.”
“plaintiff be and it hereby is granted leave to file an Amended Complaint.”
“the motion of plaintiff for summary judgment be and it hereby is denied.”
“the motion of defendant for summary judgment be and it hereby is denied.”
“Defendant’s motion for summary judgment is DENIED;”
“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.
How long civil cases take in this court
For the whole of United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, not for Judge Alsop: median time from filing to disposition of the civil cases the court closed in the 12 months ending September 30, 2025, as reported by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
| Cases | Median time | |
|---|---|---|
| All civil cases closed | 2,681 | 8.2 months |
| Closed with no court action | 1,499 | 5.6 months |
| Closed before pretrial | 645 | 7.4 months |
| Closed during or after pretrial | 525 | 13.3 months |
| Closed during trial | 12 | 39.4 months |
| 12 months ending | Cases closed | Median time |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | 2,681 | 8.2 months |
| Sep 2024 | 2,636 | 8.3 months |
| Sep 2023 | 2,579 | 7 months |
| Sep 2022 | 2,701 | 5.8 months |
| Sep 2021 | 2,737 | 7.7 months |
| Sep 2020 | 3,259 | 14.3 months |
| Sep 2019 | 8,151 | 21.6 months |
The table leaves out prisoner petitions, land condemnations, deportation reviews, recovery of overpayments and enforcement of judgments, and reports no median for fewer than 10 cases. A district that closed a large multidistrict litigation in the period shows very large counts and long medians for that year. Source: Table C-5, U.S. District Courts (spreadsheet).
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