Carl L. Rasch
Judge Rasch no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Rasch decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Rasch read a curative statute to avoid forcing a party to repeat a land-selection process that the amended law now plainly permitted.
“the effect of such holding would simply be to require the defendant railway company to do over again what it did once before”
Cautions
He treated established judicial and administrative usage as important evidence of a statutory term's meaning.
“the sense in which such word, term, or phrase was used in legislation was with the meaning which the courts and the departments had theretofore attached to the same.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Decree of dismissal may be entered.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The one located decision concerns federal public-land patents. It does not establish the distribution of Rasch's full caseload.
A historical record
Judge Rasch 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.