Philip Neville
How Judge Neville rules, drawn from 29 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Neville no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Neville decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Cautions
Neville would not use suppression solely to punish officers where the challenged evidence was lawfully seized and the excess search produced nothing used against the defendant.
“an illegal seizure of one item does not reflect upon the legal seizure of another.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“An order will be entered granting leave to take the depositions requested”
“The net result of the above is that the defendant herein is required to be arraigned and to enter a plea of either guilty or not guilty.”
“It is therefore ordered that defendant’s motion for reduction of sentence is denied.”
“A separate order of remand has been entered.”
Neville's retrieved opinion discusses the pending issue and reasoning but does not include an express final disposition in the published text.
“the time within which the defendants and each of them may answer, move or otherwise plead to the complaints in both above actions and not be in default, be and the same hereby is extended to and including *839December 2, 1968”
“the clerk of this court transmit forthwith the two above files to the Clerk of District Court for the Northern District of Illinois”
“Defendants therefore must prevail and their motions to dismiss must be granted.”
“It is ordered That defendants’ motion to stay the taking of defendants’ depositions be and the same hereby is denied.”
“Accordingly, the motion to intervene pursuant to Rule 24(b) must be denied.”
“The court, although not condoning a practice permitting abuse of a search warrant by exceeding its perimeters, is not impressed that a motion to suppress should be granted solely as a chastisement or a disciplinary measure directed to the searching officers”
“The court is of the view that this case should be transferred to and venued in North Dakota.”
“It is ordered That the motion of International Business Machines Corporation to disqualify Malcolm A. Hoffman and Robert W. Biggar, Jr. of the law firm of Malcolm A. Hoffman as counsel for plaintiffs Applied Data Research, Inc. and Programmatics Incorporated be and the same hereby is denied.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No assigned electronic dockets were found for Neville's 1967–1974 tenure, so the record does not support a caseload distribution or timing analysis.
A historical record
Judge Neville no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.