Susan Judy Dlott
How Judge Dlott rules, drawn from 17 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
How Judge Dlott decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Grants a defendant's summary judgment — including on its counterclaim — where the movant establishes entitlement as a matter of law.
“Vera Bradley’s Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 52) is GRANTED as to both Vesi’s claim against it and its counterclaim against Vesi for $47,684.43.”
Procedural preferences
Grants partial motions to dismiss, dismissing the deficient claims while allowing leave to amend in part and remanding remaining state claims where appropriate.
“Defendant’s Partial Motion to Dismiss (Doc. 1-3 at PageID 22–28) is GRANTED. Plaintiff’s conversion and civil theft claims are DISMISSED.”
Cautions
Denies motions to reconsider a prior summary-judgment ruling.
“the Motion to Reconsider the Motion for Summary Judgment of the Police Officers (doc. 151) is DENIED.”
The 2026 immigration-detention sample runs in both directions: after granting relief in earlier Section 1226(a) cases, she denied later petitions and emergency injunction requests where a voluntary-departure order changed the governing detention posture.
“Agyei’s Habeas Petitions (Docs. 1, 8) and TRO Motions (Docs. 2, 9) are DENIED.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Defendant’s Partial Motion to Dismiss (Doc. 1-3 at PageID 22–28) is GRANTED. Plaintiff’s conversion and civil theft claims are DISMISSED.”
“Vera Bradley’s Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 52) is GRANTED as to both Vesi’s claim against it and its counterclaim against Vesi for $47,684.43.”
“Vesi’s Motion for Leave to File a Sur-Reply (Doc. 93) is GRANTED, but the arguments and evidence cited therein were not dispositive of the summary judgment issues.”
The court allowed five-page supplemental briefs on judicial estoppel and deferred the request for oral argument without deciding the pending cross-motions for summary judgment.
“Minute Key’s motions to dismiss (Doc. 28, 29) are granted”
“Hillman’s Motion for Leave to File an Amended Complaint and motion to file documents under seal (Doc. 40, 42) are granted in part”
“the Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 27) is GRANTED”
“Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 28) is DENIED.”
“the Court will grant Defendants’ Motions to Dismiss (Doc. 11, 12) and dismiss Plaintiff’s claims against those Defendants without prejudice.”
“the Motion to Reconsider the Motion for Summary Judgment of the Police Officers (doc. 151) is DENIED.”
“Officer Hooven’s first and second claims are dismissed, but his third and fourth claims are not dismissed.”
“The Motion for Sanctions (Doc. 94) is DENIED.”
“The Motion for Reconsideration is granted in so far as the January 3, 2025 Dismissal Order is amended in two ways.”
“Finally, the Plaintiffs’ Motion to Certify is denied at this time.”
“(Docs. 21, 23, 24 30, 31) are GRANTED.”
“DiSalvo Development and Pete DiSalvo’s Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings (Doc. 41) is GRANTED.”
“the Court is unable to accept the Rule 11(c)(1)(C) Plea Agreement and denies Defendant’s Motion for Reconsideration.”
“the Court will GRANT the Habeas Petition and DENY AS MOOT the Motion for Summary Judgment.”
“The Court will DENY AS MOOT the Motion to Dismiss.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The caseload sample includes eight terminated civil cases filed from 2020 through 2022 for duration analysis and ten pending 2026 matters illustrating the current mix of cases.
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