Jodi Marie Warmbrod Dishman
How Judge Dishman decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
At the pleading stage takes the complaint's well-pleaded allegations as true and reads them in context: rejected an FHA defendant's argument that the statute did not reach a 'project manager' because the complaint pleaded that person was a tenant, and declined to convert a 12(b)(6) motion into summary judgment under Rule 12(d) (so refused to weigh the movant's competing factual explanations on a motion to dismiss).
“The Court rejects this argument because Plaintiff clearly alleges the project manager was a tenant.”
Procedural preferences
Enforces standing and subject-matter-jurisdiction requirements rigorously, including for pro se plaintiffs (prudential standing to sue on behalf of another); dismisses jurisdictional defects without prejudice per Tenth Circuit law.
“all dismissals for lack of jurisdiction, including those for a failure to establish a waiver of sovereign immunity . . . should be without prejudice”
Motion outcomes
Counted from classified signed orders only. Percentages are shown only where the sample is large enough to be meaningful; smaller samples are reported as raw counts.
| Motions to dismiss N = 2 |
Granted: 1Denied: 1 | counts only |
A "1 of 1" is one ruling, not a tendency. Treat small samples as illustrative, not predictive.
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the Court GRANTS Defendants' Motion to Dismiss [Doc. No. 25]. The Court dismisses without prejudice Mr. Horton's claims for lack of standing and subject-matter jurisdiction. The Court also dismisses without prejudice Mr. Horton's claims against Defendants Federal Personnel Records Center and National Guard Bureau.”
“For the reasons analyzed above, the Court denies Defendants' Motion to Dismiss.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 348 days (N = 7).
Mixed civil + criminal district docket. Commercial/contract and PI civil matters predominate in the sample and tend to settle. Ex-Big Law complex-litigation background. Counts are sample-level, not court-wide.