Raymond James Pettine
How Judge Pettine decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Pettine treated contemporaneous witness statements as discoverable when later recollection could not supply an equivalent and the material did not reveal counsel's impressions.
“These statements are ones which could not in all probability now be obtained from the named witnesses because their present memories would hardly be as acute as their memories shortly after the accident.”
He granted administrative review where the agency's dormancy analysis lacked a sufficient record-based justification.
“It is hereby ordered that the Interstate Commerce Commission’s decision and order dated July 1, 1968, be vacated”
Procedural preferences
Pettine enforced Rule 12's anti-piecemeal design and would not permit a defense omitted from an earlier consolidated motion to be raised later.
“To permit this defense to be raised now would undermine the very purpose of Rule 12(g), (h), which is the avoidance of time-consuming, piece-meal litigation of pre-trial motions.”
He separated venue convenience from case management, denying transfer while granting a stay to reduce duplicative proceedings.
“Sauquoit’s motion to stay, pending the outcome of the litigation in the Eastern District of New York, and/or the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, is hereby granted”
Cautions
Pettine required specific prejudice before dismissing an indictment for the grand jury's receipt of hearsay evidence.
“have not been able to point to any specific harm caused by the use of hearsay.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The defendant’s motion is denied.”
“The Motion to Dismiss is hereby granted without prejudice with leave to amend the complaint.”
“For these reasons, the third-party defendant’s motion to dismiss on jurisdictional grounds is denied.”
“the cases are ordered to be consolidated and C.A. Nos. 3449 and 3471 are deemed the cases to be tried.”
“the court orders the parties to establish a mutually satisfactory time and place for the production and copying of all the requested statements.”
“Accordingly, the motion to dismiss is denied.”
“For all the above reasons, the motion for summary judgment is granted.”
“It is hereby ordered that the Interstate Commerce Commission’s decision and order dated July 1, 1968, be vacated and that this ease be remanded to the Commission for such further proceedings as are required”
“The motions to dismiss in this regard are denied.”
“It is, therefore, ordered that the petition for naturalization be and the same hereby is granted.”
“The defendants’ motion to dismiss is hereby denied.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The twenty located assigned dockets span contract, Social Security, civil-rights, product-liability, constitutional, forfeiture, environmental, labor, condemnation, maritime-contract, and railroad-injury matters. The five randomly checked cases were all terminated and retained no entry timeline.
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