Jeffrey J. Keyes
How Judge Keyes decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
On Social Security appeals Keyes recommends granting the claimant's summary-judgment motion and, where the record compels it, remanding under sentence four for a calculation and award of benefits rather than merely further proceedings.
“Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. No. [7]), is GRANTED”
Cautions
Where substantial evidence supports the ALJ he recommends the other way -- denying the claimant's summary-judgment motion and granting the Commissioner's -- even in a close case, affirming the agency's denial of benefits.
“Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. No. [10]) is GRANTED.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. No. [7]), is GRANTED”
“Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. No. [9]), is DENIED”
District Judge Susan Richard Nelson adopted Magistrate Judge Keyes's May 19, 2014 recommendation (no objections filed). Keyes recommended denying in-forma-pauperis status and summarily dismissing; the court adopted it, denied the application, and summarily dismissed the action under 28 U.S.C. 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii). It is a screening ruling -- the in-forma-pauperis denial is incident to the 1915(e) screening -- resolving no party's substantive motion on the merits.
“Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. No. [8]) is DENIED.”
“Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. No. [10]) is GRANTED.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Keyes's consent (636(c)) civil footprint as the assigned judge of record is dominated by Social-Security disability appeals (the majority of his ~20 surfaced dockets are 863 DIWC/DIWW), with some insurance, labor (LMRA), ADA (446), consumer-credit (480), and employment civil-rights cases. Case-level durations (filed minus terminated): Allina Health System v. ADIT (labor) ~177 days; Betts v. Colvin (SS) ~312 days; Gast v. Colvin (SS) ~428 days; Tesmer v. Colvin (SS) ~283 days. Sampled across 2008-2015; not exhaustive.
Put Judge Keyes's record to work
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