Richard Peters
How Judge Peters rules, drawn from 3 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Peters no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled here.
About Judge Peters
Richard Peters was a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Appointed by President George Washington, Judge Peters was commissioned to the United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania on January 12, 1792 and reassigned to this court on April 20, 1818. Judge Peters served until death on August 22, 1828.
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“granted the motion, and decreed the respondent to pay the costs.”
“by the division of the court, the motion, if it bad that form, would fall, and consequently that the rule is discharged.”
“The supplementary libel, claiming the whole, as derelict, under a rule which does not now exist, must be dismissed.”
“I have concluded to allow half in this case”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No surviving assigned-case index was located for Peters’s Eastern District tenure. The profile therefore makes no claim about his caseload, case duration, motion base rates, or ruling speed.
A historical record
Judge Peters 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.