Jonathan W. Feldman

How Judge Feldman rules, drawn from 9 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Court
U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
Position
magistrate
Commissioned
1995-11-06
Education
Cornell University (B.A., 1978); Syracuse University College of Law (J.D., summa cum laude, 1981)
Signed orders read
9

Signed rulings

A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.

McClary v. Kelly
1:90-cv-00501 · 1998-04-30
Daubert motion (defendant) Denied

“defendants' Daubert motion to exclude that portion of Dr. Grassian's testimony about ‘a so called syndrome’ concerning the ‘Psychopathological Effects of Solitary Confinement’ (Docket # 84) is denied.”

McClary v. Coughlin
1:90-cv-00501 · 2000-03-14
Motion for judgment as a matter of law (defendant) Denied

“For the reasons that follow, defendants’ motion for judgment as a matter of law is denied.”

Motion for new trial (defendant) Granted in part

“the Court finds that the remedy of remittitur is proper and fair in this case. For these reasons, the Court will deny defendants’ motions for a new trial conditioned upon plaintiffs consent to a remittitur and damages in the amount of $237,500.”

Corchado ex rel. Corchado v. Board of Education, Rochester City School District
6:99-cv-06494 · 2000-02-18
Summary judgment (plaintiff) Granted

“I find that Sadrach does qualify for IDEA benefits and, therefore, direct the defendant to develop and implement an individualized educational plan (IEP) for Sadrach pursuant to the IDEA.”

Summary judgment (defendant) Denied

“The defendant determined that Sadrach did not qualify for benefits under IDEA and, on administrative review, an Impartial Hearing Officer (IHO) and a State Review Officer (SRO) agreed. For the reasons that follow, I find that Sadrach does qualify for IDEA benefits”

Barrus v. Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.
published at 465 F. Supp. 2d 224 (W.D.N.Y. 2006) · 2006-09-19
Motion to amend (plaintiff) Granted

“plaintiffs’ motions to amend their complaint, to compel discovery of employees who meet the class descriptions and for expedited notice to affected employees are granted.”

Motions to compel (plaintiff) Granted
Motion for conditional certification (plaintiff) Granted
Employees Committed for Justice v. Eastman Kodak Co.
published at 407 F. Supp. 2d 423 (W.D.N.Y. 2005) · 2005-09-29
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Denied

“The defendant’s motion to dismiss portions of plaintiffs’ complaint is denied.”

Peek v. Pines Apartment LLP
published at 278 F. Supp. 3d 679 (W.D.N.Y. 2017) · 2017-09-30
Summary judgment (defendant) Granted

“For the reasons stated below, the defendants’ motion for summary judgment (Docket # 55) is granted.”

Mastin v. Senkowski
published at 297 F. Supp. 2d 558 (W.D.N.Y. 2003) · 2003-11-03
Habeas petition (petitioner) Denied

“Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c), the parties have consented to the disposition of this matter by the undersigned. For the reasons set forth below, Mastin’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus is denied.”

United States v. Wilbert
unknown (Report and Recommendation at Dkt. 79) · 2018-08-20
Motion to suppress (defendant) Denied

“Magistrate Judge Feldman issued a thorough, 29-page Report and Recommendation recommending that the motion to suppress be denied”

Motion for franks hearing (defendant) Denied

“the motion for a Franks hearing be denied”

Motions to dismiss (defendant) Denied

“the motion to dismiss the Indictment be denied”

United States v. Whitaker
unknown (Report and Recommendation at Dkt. 36) · 2018-09-21
Motion to suppress (defendant) Denied

“United States Magistrate Judge Jonathan W. Feldman issued a thorough Report and Recommendation on September 21, 2018, recommending that Defendant's suppression motion be denied.”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 494 days (N = 12).

A docket enumeration across 1990-2019 filing cohorts shows Feldman's consent docket dominated by Social Security disability appeals (Titles II and XVI) from the mid-2010s onward, alongside a long-running mix of prisoner civil-rights suits and habeas corpus petitions (his docket since the 1990s), employment-discrimination and wage-and-hour (FLSA) actions, patent and copyright infringement suits, ERISA benefit claims, product-liability and insurance matters, and criminal-duty warrants and initial appearances.

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