Charles Gelbert Neese
How Judge Neese rules, drawn from 20 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Neese no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Neese decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Neese treated a traffic guilty plea as an admission for the jury to weigh, not as a judgment conclusively establishing civil negligence.
“Such a plea ‘ * * * is received [in evidence], not as a judgment establishing a fact or the truth of the facts in support of the charge of negligent driving, but as a declaration or admission against interest.”
Procedural preferences
Neese generally deferred evidentiary rulings until trial when admissibility depended on whether, why, and in what context the evidence was offered.
“In this Circuit, orders in limine are not favored, the better practice being ‘ * * * to deal with questions of admissibility of evidence as they arise [at trial].”
Cautions
Neese expected parties to use a document request before asking the court to compel production and required subpoenas for documents held by nonparties.
“Rule 34, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, ‘* * * provides for production upon request, and not by motion.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The motion obviously lacks merit and hereby is DENIED.”
“The aforementioned application to the Court, therefore, hereby is DENIED without prejudice to the plaintiff’s application to the clerk of this Court for entry of a judgment by default under the provisions of Rule 55(b)(1), supra.”
“Such motion hereby is DENIED, but without prejudice to the making by the defendant of an objection at trial to the introduction of any such evidence when, and if, the prosecution seeks to offer it.”
“For such reason, the motion of the plaintiff hereby is DENIED.”
“Since the plaintiff failed to specify the person1 before whom he proposes to take the depositions, the Court is unable to comply with the provisions of Rule 30(b)(4), supra, and for such reason, the motion hereby is DENIED.2”
“The defendants were not justified in this instance in failing to arrange for the portions of the deposition of the witness Mr. Williams they wished to introduce which were not being introduced'by the plaintiffs, and their objection to the plaintiffs’ use of portions thereof was overruled.”
“Within 15 days herefrom, the plaintiff will either secure the service of the defendant or show to the Court any cause why this action should not be dismissed involuntarily for her failure to prosecute it, by exercising reasonable diligence to secure service of process on the defendant.”
“Accordingly, the Court declines to consider this aspect of the respective motions until such time as the movant has first requested the respective plaintiffs to produce the documents and is refused.”
“To the extent the aforementioned motions seek orders directing certain non-party corporations to produce the desired documents, each such motion hereby is DENIED.”
“For the reasons indicated hereinbelow, the Court DISALLOWS such exception, the proposed revisions being unnecessary.”
“The aforementioned application to the Court, therefore, hereby is DENIED without prejudice to the plaintiff’s application to the clerk of this Court for entry of a judgment by default under the provisions of Rule 55(b)(1), supra.”
“Therefore, this Court lacks the authority to continue such hearing beyond April 28, 1980, and the plaintiff’s motion for a continuance for a greater period of time than that hereby is DENIED.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No case-level docket sample is available for Neese's tenure, so the profile makes no complete claim about caseload mix, duration, or motion timing.
A historical record
Judge Neese no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.