Sean August Camoni
How Judge Camoni rules, drawn from 18 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
About Judge Camoni
Sean A. Camoni has served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in Williamsport since July 2025. Before joining the court, he served as an assistant United States attorney. He earned his law degree from Seton Hall University.
Judge Camoni's practices and standing orders
Rules for cases before Judge Camoni, as published on the court's website (checked October 9, 2026). Judges revise these often, so confirm the current version on the court's site before you file.
Key rules
Motions
Request an extension of a case management deadline by timely motion showing unusual circumstances.
“dates and deadlines will not ordinarily be subject to extensions, unless unusual circumstances are presented and a timely motion to extend is filed.”
Discovery
Use the discovery dispute procedure before moving to compel or filing another discovery motion.
“Prior to filing a motion to compel or any other type of discovery-oriented motions, the moving party must utilize this procedure.”
Trial
Jointly prepare an agreed special verdict slip.
“Judge Camoni requires that counsel jointly prepare an agreed-upon special verdict slip.”
Standing orders for every case in this court
Orders the court applies to all of its cases, whichever judge has them, as published on the court's website (checked October 9, 2026).
How Judge Camoni decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In employment cases, a party opposing summary judgment must specifically controvert the movant's factual statement with record support.
“Where nonmovants fail to support denials with record citations, a common sanction is to deem these allegations admitted.”
Procedural preferences
He expects agreed case-management deadlines to remain firm unless a timely motion identifies unusual circumstances.
“these deadlines will typically not be extended absent unusual circumstances”
In his published case-management guidance, Camoni anticipates about six months of discovery for a standard-track case. He says he will generally set jury selection or trial in the initial case-management order when possible.
“six months will be the average amount of time allotted for discovery in a standard track case”
Cautions
For represented parties, an unsupported response such as being unable to confirm or deny a fact may result in the fact being treated as admitted.
“These responses fail to dispute Defendants' statements of facts, and so those facts are deemed admitted for the purpose of summary judgment.”
In Iglesias, he rejected a claimant's symptom-evaluation argument where it amounted to disagreement with how the administrative decision characterized the evidentiary record.
“Because it amounts to no more than disagreements with the ALJ’s characterization of the record evidence, the Court rejects the argument.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The Defendants' motion to dismiss (doc. 32) is GRANTED; (2) The Amended Complaint (doc. 24), is dismissed without prejudice; and (3) The Plaintiff may file a second amended complaint”
“the Court will grant in part and deny in part CHS's motion for summary judgment.”
“The DEA's motion for summary judgment (Doc. 16) be GRANTED”
“Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 54) be DEEMED MOOT”
“the Individual Defendants' motion to dismiss, doc. 27, is granted in its entirety”
“DCVFC's motion to dismiss, doc. 49, is granted in part and denied in part. The plaintiff may amend his complaint”
“the Commissioner's decision is AFFIRMED.”
“the Commissioner's decision is AFFIRMED.”
“the Commissioner's decision is AFFIRMED.”
“the Commissioner's decision will be AFFIRMED.”
“the Commissioner's decision is AFFIRMED.”
“the Court grants the Defendants' Motions for Summary Judgment.”
“GRANT Petitioner's Petition (Doc. 1), and enter judgment for the Petitioner and against the Respondent”
“ORDER that Petitioner is entitled to attorney's fees, costs, and expenses under the EAJA”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 748 days (N = 1).
Median motion-to-ruling time: 19 days (N = 5).
His first-year direct-assignment docket includes a substantial Social Security cohort alongside civil-rights, employment, habeas, and commercial disputes.
Pending matters in the official report
Reported by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts under the Civil Justice Reform Act, as of March 31, 2026.
| Motions pending more than six months | 0 |
| Bench trials submitted more than six months | 0 |
| Bankruptcy appeals pending more than six months | 0 |
| Social Security appeals pending more than six months | 18 |
| Civil cases pending more than three years | 0 |
| Report | Motions over six months | Cases over three years |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2025 | 0 | 0 |
A snapshot on that date: matters listed may since have been decided or reassigned. A motion referred to a magistrate judge is counted for both judges. Motions in multidistrict litigation, section 2255 cases and Social Security appeals are not counted, and a very large three-year count is generally a multidistrict docket. Source: Appendix A of the report (PDF); about the report.
How long civil cases take in this court
For the whole of U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, not for Judge Camoni: median time from filing to disposition of the civil cases the court closed in the 12 months ending September 30, 2025, as reported by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
| Cases | Median time | |
|---|---|---|
| All civil cases closed | 1,590 | 8.5 months |
| Closed with no court action | 660 | 6 months |
| Closed before pretrial | 901 | 10.6 months |
| Closed during or after pretrial | 21 | 39.8 months |
| Closed during trial | 8 | not reported |
| 12 months ending | Cases closed | Median time |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | 1,590 | 8.5 months |
| Sep 2024 | 1,535 | 8.7 months |
| Sep 2023 | 1,370 | 11 months |
| Sep 2022 | 1,550 | 12.7 months |
| Sep 2021 | 1,420 | 9.4 months |
| Sep 2020 | 1,410 | 10.6 months |
| Sep 2019 | 1,611 | 11 months |
The table leaves out prisoner petitions, land condemnations, deportation reviews, recovery of overpayments and enforcement of judgments, and reports no median for fewer than 10 cases. A district that closed a large multidistrict litigation in the period shows very large counts and long medians for that year. Source: Table C-5, U.S. District Courts (spreadsheet).
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