James S. Gallas
Judge Gallas no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Gallas decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Gallas found that a bare assertion of reputational harm did not establish standing to seek correction of patent inventorship.
“Mr. Barnette has not shown standing to raise a § 256 claim for correction of inventorship.”
Gallas treated the employee's admission that he committed the charged infractions as supporting the truth of the employer's stated grounds.
“Hadad’s admission at deposition that he had ‘committed’ the eight alleged infractions supports the defendant’s position that they were true.”
Procedural preferences
Gallas enforced the suit-limitation period incorporated into the shipping document.
“Automated Window was required to institute this action no later than two years and one day from the day when written notice was given to Automatic Window that its claim was disallowed by R & L.”
Gallas declined to reach a dispositive filing that exceeded the sequence set by the case-management order.
“The court cannot ignore its own order.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“it is recommended that this application for habeas corpus be denied”
“that Lowe’s motion for summary judgment be denied because he has not established a right to relief as a matter of law”
“Defendant’s motion for summary judgment should be granted with judgment entered for defendants and the case dismissed.”
“Washington Mutual Bank’s motion for partial summary judgment under Rule 56 of the Federal Procedure is granted (ECF # 34)”
“Infinity Construction Co., Inc.’s motion for summary judgment on its cross-claim is denied (ECF # 36)”
“It is recommended that the petitioner’s application for habeas corpus be denied.”
“It is recommended that petitioner’s motion for attorney fees and costs (ECF # 100) be granted under 42 U.S.C. § 11607(b)(3) for a total award in the amount of $117,890.73”
“It is further recommended that petitioner’s supplemental motion (EOF # 110) be denied except for allowance of an amount for fee litigation consistent with the dictates of the Sixth Circuit.”
“Request for Discovery as well as recently scheduled depositions, (ECF # 62), is granted.”
“Dutch Heritage’s motion for summary judgment (EOF # 79) is granted in part and denied in part”
“plaintiff Ms. Lawson’s motion for partial summary judgment(ECF # 86) is granted and denied in part.”
“it is therefore recommended that Mr. Socha’s petition for habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 be denied and dismissed.”
“it is recommended that petitioner’s motion for preliminary injunction (Docket No. 30) and emergency supplemental motion for temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction (Docket No. 31) be denied.”
“Mr. Ritenour’s motion for partial summary judgment with respect to his claim of State Farm’s breach of the medical payment provision in the insurance policy (docket No. 16) is granted with judgment to be entered in the amount of $15,902.00”
“his motion to strike (Docket No. 21) is denied as moot.”
Gallas dismissed the benefits action for non-exhaustion without expressly disposing of a party motion: "Accordingly, this matter is dismissed for non-exhaustion of administrative remedies provided under the UNUM Life Insurance plan."
“Automated Window’s right to institute a civil action against R & L expired after January 13, 2003 and the complaint must be dismissed as untimely.”
“the April 21, 2000 judgment will not be amended, the partial denial of summary judgment will stand and the case will proceed to trial on the remaining issues.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Twenty assigned matters were enumerated. The fixed-seed sample contained five terminated employment cases. Their durations ranged from 181 to 1,899 days, with a median of 359 days; four had no electronic entries and the fifth contained only orders signed by another judge.
A historical record
Judge Gallas no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.