Clay H. Kaminsky
How Judge Kaminsky decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Procedural preferences
Before recommending dismissal for failure to prosecute, Kaminsky considered notice, prejudice from delay, docket management, the opportunity to be heard, and whether lesser measures had already failed.
“the undersigned has considered and attempted remedies less drastic than dismissal over the past several months, but those less drastic measures have failed to spur Plaintiff to adequately prosecute this case.”
He applied strict scrutiny to a counsel-disqualification request and treated unresolved trial-witness concerns as premature where discovery and a pending dispositive motion could change the need for testimony.
“At this stage, Plaintiffs have not met their burden of establishing that Mr. Stumer’s testimony is necessary or prejudicial.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Accordingly, because Plaintiff has failed to prosecute this case and to comply with a Court order, I respectfully recommend that this action be dismissed pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(b).”
“For the foregoing reasons, I recommend that Defendant’s motion for sanctions be DENIED.”
“For the foregoing reasons, Plaintiffs’ motion to disqualify Mr. Stumer is denied without prejudice.”
“Plaintiff’s application to proceed in forma pauperis under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (ECF Dkt. No. 2) is hereby granted.”
Kaminsky directed two nonparty medical providers to produce requested documents by a date certain and required any noncompliant respondent to appear at a status conference. The order states: ‘Respondents CityMD Bergen Beach Urgent Care and Century Medical and Dental Center are each directed to produce the requested documents to Defendants’ counsel no later than June 5, 2026.’ The order did not identify the underlying motion, so it is retained as a signed discovery order but excluded from outcome statistics.
“Plaintiff’s application to proceed in forma pauperis under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 is hereby granted.”
“Having also balanced the factors set forth in Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., 542 U.S. 241, 264–65 (2004), the Court grants Hao’s petition.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The early sample included three wage-and-hour cases, plus insurance, Social Security, immigration, employment, and criminal-duty matters. Seven of eight cases remained pending in the available case metadata. The sole terminated matter lasted 178 days, which is too little evidence for a duration characterization.
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