Arlene R. Lindsay
How Judge Lindsay decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Procedural preferences
On multi-defendant default-judgment motions she follows the Frow/consistency rule: where some defendants default but others are still litigating, she will recommend DENYING default judgment against the defaulters WITH LEAVE TO RENEW until the non-defaulting defendants' liability is resolved, to avoid inconsistent judgments (Sidik v. Royal Sovereign). Don't expect a default judgment against one of several jointly-liable defendants while the case continues against the others.
“Judge Lindsay recommended that the Court deny the Plaintiffs’ motion for default judgment with leave to renew, after a determination of the rights and liabilities of [the non-defaulting defendants].”
Cautions
On unopposed ERISA/Taft-Hartley fund default judgments (a large share of her Central Islip referral diet) she independently fixes damages to a reasonable certainty -- unpaid contributions, interest, liquidated damages, fees and costs are itemized in her R&R and adopted as a sum certain (Gesualdi v. Deland; Gesualdi v. Bestech). Come with audit-supported damages math.
“plaintiffs’ request for damages, costs, and fees is granted. The Court hereby directs that plaintiffs recover damages from defendant in the amount of $307,977.91”
Motion outcomes
Counted from classified signed orders only. Percentages are shown only where the sample is large enough to be meaningful; smaller samples are reported as raw counts.
| Default judgment N = 3 |
Granted: 2Moot / procedural: 1 | counts only |
| Motions to strike N = 1 |
Denied: 1 | counts only |
| Motion for leave to amend N = 1 |
Granted in part: 1 | counts only |
A "1 of 1" is one ruling, not a tendency. Treat small samples as illustrative, not predictive.
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the 2014 Report and Recommendation is adopted as if set forth herein, and plaintiffs’ request for damages, costs, and fees is granted. The Court hereby directs that plaintiffs recover damages from defendant in the amount of $307,977.91”
“Judge Lindsay’s R&R (Docket Entry 21) is ADOPTED in its entirety and Plaintiffs’ motion for a default judgment (Docket Entry 10) is GRANTED.”
“Judge Lindsay recommended that the Court deny the Plaintiffs’ motion for default judgment with leave to renew, after a determination of the rights and liabilities of Royal Sovereign International, Inc., Royal Centurian Inc., and BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc.. ... Accordingly, the R&R is adopted in its entirety.”
“the plaintiff’s motion to amend the complaint is denied insofar as it seeks to add the third cause of action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and granted to the extent that plaintiff is permitted to amend the complaint to add paragraphs 9, 91, and 94.”
“IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff’s motion to strike is denied in its entirety.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
E.D.N.Y. referral magistrate, Central Islip (Long Island; suffix 'ARL'). Sampled currently-assigned dockets (all filed 2026, pending) show a Long Island civil referral mix: mortgage-foreclosure / commercial contract (Wilmington Savings Fund Society v. EDB; BMO Bank v. VStock Transfer; Jeffrey Farkas MD v. United Healthcare out-of-network reimbursement), tort product liability (Suffolk County Water Authority v. East Hampton Energy Storage Center), FLSA labor (Espinoza v. Clowns.com; Figueroa Filosa v. J Savino Cafe), civil-rights employment / ADA (Boynton v. Cablevision Lightpath; Ovaitte v. PSEG Long Island), Truth-in-Lending (Garcia v. JS Automall East), USCIS immigration (Loi v. USCIS), and criminal mj matters. Consistent with the GovInfo R&R sample, her substantive referral work is default-judgment- and ERISA/Taft-Hartley-heavy alongside general Long Island civil. This is a current-snapshot composition, not a full-tenure caseload.