Sarah A. Hall
How Judge Hall rules, drawn from 27 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
How Judge Hall decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
The court required the complaint itself to plead the facts supporting fiduciary status rather than relying on new allegations supplied only in opposition briefing.
“a plaintiff cannot amend a complaint by adding factual allegations in its response to a motion to dismiss”
Procedural preferences
The court expects a party invoking issue preclusion to supply the full state-court judgment record needed to identify what was actually decided.
“Plaintiffs did not provide the judgment roll as required by Oklahoma law governing issue preclusion.”
Cautions
Boilerplate discovery objections and delayed supplementation risk waiver and an order compelling complete responses.
“all counsel are cautioned to understand and fully embrace their obligations to timely provide, in the first instance, meaningful, thoughtful and complete discovery responses and objections.”
A readily accessible appeal deadline was enforced despite counsel's misunderstanding of when the clock began to run.
“Even a cursory reading of Rule 8002(a)(1) would have prevented this error”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Ward's Motion to Dismiss for failure to state a claim is GRANTED with respect to Bank's claim of nondischargeability of debts pursuant to Section 523(a)(4), but with leave to amend the Complaint within twenty (20) days of the date this Order is entered, and DENIED in all other respects.”
“Therefore, Debtor’s request to reopen is hereby GRANTED. Debtor’s request to extend time to file his financial management course certificate is hereby DENIED without prejudice to refiling a motion to extend time to file a financial management course certificate that addresses the factors laid out above.”
“no purpose will be served by reopening the bankruptcy case. Therefore, cause does not exist to reopen the bankruptcy case and the Motion is denied.”
“Accordingly, the Motion is DENIED with respect to the Phipps Declaration and GRANTED with respect to the Potter Declaration.”
“Accordingly, the Motion is DENIED.”
“For the reasons set forth above, the Motion is DENIED as to Trustee’s Section 727(a)(6) and (d)(3) claim and GRANTED with respect to Trustee’s request for a money judgment in the amount of $12,191.85, together with the costs of this action in the amount of $350.00.”
“For the reasons stated above, Sisson’s Motion is DENIED.”
“Accordingly, the Motion is DENIED.”
“For the reasons set forth above, the Motion is denied.”
“For the reasons set forth above, the Motion is GRANTED. Plaintiff is granted twenty- one (21) days after entry of this Order to file an amended complaint.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
All six sampled matters were terminated. Ward supplied one express contested outcome; the five fixed streams supplied no express retained outcome.
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