Jennifer H. Rearden
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”
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.
| Summary judgment N = 1 |
Moot / procedural: 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.
“Defendant's motion for summary judgment is hereby denied without prejudice to renewal”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Case-level only (from search_dockets; no entry reads). Rearden was commissioned 2022-10-07. Her current (2026) assignments are dominated by a wave of alien-detainee habeas petitions (463) plus Schedule-A trademark/copyright enforcement suits; her older docket (2020-2023) includes notable enforcement and qui tam matters. No case durations or motion outcomes are grounded here (entries unavailable). Reflects assignment mix, not measured outcomes.