Michael Ryan Barrett

How Judge Barrett rules, drawn from 12 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Court
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Position
district
Appointed by
George W. Bush (Republican)
Commissioned
2006-05-05
Education
University of Cincinnati (B.A. history, 1974); University of Cincinnati College of Law (J.D., 1977)
Signed orders read
12

How Judge Barrett decides

Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

What persuades

He resolves summary judgment count by count, granting the motion as to some claims while denying it as to others rather than disposing of the case wholesale.

“Summary Judgment is GRANTED as to Counts III, IV and V. Summary Judgment is DENIED as to Counts I and II.”

Procedural preferences

He refers dispositive motions to a magistrate judge and, on review, adopts the report and recommendation in its entirety, entering the recommended disposition on the reasoning set out therein.

“the January 21, 2021 R&R (Doc. 28) is adopted in its entirety and, for the reasons set forth therein, Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 24) and Motion to Strike (Doc. 27) are DENIED”

Signed rulings

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

Griesinger v. Loveland City School District
· 2007-02-05
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Denied

“Defendants' Motions to Dismiss (Docs. 9, 10) are DENIED.”

Motions to strike (defendant) Denied

“Defendants' Motions to Strike (Docs. 16, 17) are DENIED”

Motions to strike (defendant) Denied
Hutchinson v. Stride Rite Children's Group, Inc.
· 2007-10-25
Summary judgment (defendant) Granted in part

“Summary Judgment is GRANTED as to Counts III, IV and V. Summary Judgment is DENIED as to Counts I and II.”

Trustees of Ohio Bricklayers Health and Welfare Fund v. The Ardit Company
· 2014-03-27
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Denied

“Defendants' Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs' First Amended Complaint (Doc. 11) is DENIED.”

Bates v. Shostak
· 2017-09-22
Summary judgment (plaintiff) Denied

“Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment (Doc. 15) is DENIED.”

Map Phin v. U.S. Attorney General
· 2017-06-30
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Granted

“Respondent's Motion to Dismiss (Doc. 5) is GRANTED and this matter is DISMISSED.”

Burfitt v. Lawless
· 2021-03-29
Summary judgment (defendant) Denied

“the January 21, 2021 R&R (Doc. 28) is adopted in its entirety and, for the reasons set forth therein, Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 24) and Motion to Strike (Doc. 27) are DENIED”

Motions to dismiss (defendant) Denied

“to the extent that it seeks dismissal of this action, Defendants' Motion to Dismiss is DENIED”

El-Bey v. United States
· 2022-07-20
Motions to dismiss (defendant) Granted in part

“the Amended Complaint is DISMISSED with prejudice, with the exception of Plaintiff's unlawful arrest and detention claims against unknown ‘Clinton County Sheriff/Deputy in his individual capacity,’ and those claims are STAYED”

Ashwood Computer Co., Inc. v. Zumasys, Inc.
· 2026-06-04

Barrett granted a limited motion to file documents under seal under the local rule and stipulated protective order. The ruling did not address the merits and is excluded from the motion statistics.

Frank Trammel v. Fifth Third Bank
1:26-cv-00270-MRB-SKB · 2026-07-02
In forma pauperis (plaintiff) Denied

“Plaintiff’s motion to proceed in forma pauperis (Doc. 10) is DENIED.”

Lazaro David Munoz Soto v. Kevin Raycraft et al.
1:26-cv-00509-MRB-SCS · 2026-06-05
Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted

“the petition for a writ of habeas corpus is GRANTED.”

Motions to dismiss (respondent) Moot / procedural

“the motion to dismiss filed by Respondent Butler County Sheriff is DENIED as moot.”

Melvin Oscar Ortiz Gutierrez v. Kevin Raycraft et al.
1:26-cv-00069-MRB-KAJ · 2026-02-18
Habeas petition (petitioner) Granted

“The petition for a writ of habeas corpus, (Doc. 1), is therefore GRANTED.”

Motions to dismiss (respondent) Denied

“Respondents’ motion to dismiss, (Doc. 17), is DENIED”

Motions to dismiss (respondent) Moot / procedural

“the motion to dismiss by Respondent Jones, (Doc. 15), is DENIED as moot.”

United States v. Jeffrey Edmerson
1:14-cr-00022-MRB · 2026-06-03
Motion for compassionate release (defendant) Denied

“(Doc. 220) is DENIED”

Motion for compassionate release (defendant) Moot / procedural

“his ‘emergency supplemental motion’ based on ‘family circumstances’ (Doc. 224) is DENIED as moot.”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

Samples from 2021 through 2023 show a Cincinnati docket that includes employment and civil-rights actions, consumer-credit disputes, personal-injury and product-liability cases, contracts, False Claims Act matters, prisoner habeas petitions, and federal criminal cases. The samples are illustrative rather than random.

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