Ross Rizley
How Judge Rizley rules, drawn from 14 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Rizley no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled here.
About Judge Rizley
Ross Rizley was a judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. Appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Judge Rizley received a commission on April 13, 1956. Judge Rizley served until death on March 4, 1969.
How Judge Rizley decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In Mappes, Rizley treated an unappealed probate judgment about the widow’s property rights as controlling in the tax dispute.
“where the probate court has ruled on the specific question and no appeal has been taken therefrom, this adjudication should be controlling.”
Cautions
In Canon, Rizley denied broker compensation after finding that the broker acted against the principal and took a secret profit.
“The faithful discharge of Lis duties as broker is a condition precedent to any recovery by the broker for the •services he has rendered his principal.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
He allowed the taxpayers to deduct a medically necessary home elevator that did not increase the property’s value.
“The motion to dismiss plaintiff’s' third cause of action is sustained”
He denied a cabaret-tax refund after finding merchandise sales were not incidental to the dance-hall business.
He declined declaratory jurisdiction over an insurance dispute closely tied to a nonremovable state action.
He allowed the estate-tax recovery after treating the probate decree as conclusively passing the property without a terminable interest.
He allowed the taxpayers’ casualty-loss deduction for storm damage to their farm.
“The motion to dismiss is hereby sustained.”
He rejected inverse-condemnation claims based on aircraft flights and drainage, finding no compensable taking.
After an earlier summary-judgment denial, the court tried the tax-lien complaint and entered permanent injunctive relief; the earlier motion is historical context in this opinion.
After trial of three consolidated enforcement actions, the court denied the Labor Secretary’s requests for permanent injunctions and dismissed the complaints.
He authorized reinterment of Quanah Parker and Cynthia Ann Parker in the federal cemetery at Fort Sill at government expense.
He denied rescission against the seller but awarded the buyer recovery of the broker’s secret profit and also entered judgment on the seller’s note.
A historical record
Judge Rizley no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled here. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.