Jennifer H. Rearden
How Judge Rearden rules, drawn from 3 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
How Judge Rearden decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Procedural preferences
She satisfies herself of subject-matter jurisdiction and proper venue before reaching the merits: presented with a removed case where jurisdiction and venue were doubtful, she declined to decide the defendant's summary-judgment motion and instead issued a show-cause directed at remand to state court or transfer, denying the MSJ without prejudice to renewal. Litigants before her should establish jurisdiction and venue cleanly up front rather than assume a dispositive motion will be reached.
“Defendant's motion for summary judgment is hereby denied without prejudice to renewal”
Assesses probable cause from information available before arrest rather than the later disposition of charges; an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal does not establish that the arrest lacked probable cause.
“Probable cause hinges on the information that was available to officers prior to the arrest, not on whether Plaintiff was ultimately prosecuted for a crime.”
When parties receive a clear warning, failure to object timely to a magistrate judge's recommendation waives further judicial review; she still checks the recommendation for clear error before adoption.
“Where parties receive clear notice of the consequences, failure timely to object to a magistrate’s report and recommendation operates as a waiver of further judicial review of the magistrate’s decision.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Defendant's motion for summary judgment is hereby denied without prejudice to renewal”
“For the reasons set forth above, Defendants’ motion for summary judgment on Counts One through Four, and Counts Fifteen, Sixteen, and Eighteen, is GRANTED. Plaintiff’s remaining causes of action (Counts Five and Seventeen) are DISMISSED without prejudice to refile in a state court of appropriate jurisdiction.”
“Accordingly, the Report and Recommendation is ADOPTED in its entirety.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
- Reflects assignment mix rather than measured outcomes.
- Rearden was commissioned in October 2022, so much of her current docket consists of cases reassigned to her from predecessor judges.
- Her 2026 assignments are dominated by a wave of alien-detainee habeas petitions plus Schedule-A trademark and copyright enforcement suits; her inherited older docket (filed 2018-2020) includes civil-rights, employment-discrimination, copyright, and Federal Tort Claims Act matters that she carried to judgment.
- Case durations are not reported because the sampled cases were filed years before her commission and span predecessor judges, so a filing-to-termination span would not reflect her own time on the case.
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