S. Thomas Anderson
How Judge Anderson rules, drawn from 9 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
How Judge Anderson decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
The judge treats a party's failure to respond to a summary-judgment motion, or to support objections with specific record citations, as effectively conceding the point: he does not independently build the non-movant's case for them.
“Plaintiff's blanket plea for discovery in his affidavit fails to meet this standard. Plaintiff did not show what material facts he hoped to uncover or why the facts would establish a genuine dispute for trial.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Having reviewed the Magistrate Judge's Report and Recommendation de novo, Plaintiff's timely objections, and the entire record of the case, the Court hereby ADOPTS the Report and Recommendation. Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment is GRANTED.”
“As more than twenty-eight days have passed since Nino's Motion for Summary Judgment with no response on the record, the Court accepts Nino's factual allegations as true. Therefore, the Court GRANTS Nino's Motion for Summary Judgment in the amount of $5,600.00.”
“Plaintiff's motion to compel (ECF No. 61) is DENIED as moot.”
“Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED. The Clerk of Court is DIRECTED to terminate Carroll County, Tennessee and the Carroll County Civic Center as parties to the action.”
“The Court hereby GRANTS approval to Plaintiffs’ proposed long form notice and plan for sending notice of the class action.”
“The report and recommendation is hereby ADOPTED, and Defendant’s motions (ECF Nos. 307, 325, 342) are DENIED.”
“Because Defendant has been denied leave to file a motion for reconsideration, his Motion for Reconsideration (ECF No. 326) is also DENIED.”
“the report and recommendation is hereby ADOPTED, and the motion for judgment on the pleadings is DENIED as moot.”
“The parties’ request to have 45 days in which to file a joint motion for approval of their FLSA settlement is GRANTED.”
On initial review, the court adopted an unopposed recommendation dismissing a self-represented civil-rights complaint for failure to state a claim while allowing 28 days to amend and name the proper public entity for a disability claim.
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The sampled caseload spans employment and disability-discrimination claims, personal-injury and product-liability suits, FLSA wage claims, prisoner habeas and Section 2255 petitions, insurance and contract disputes, county-jail wrongful-death Section 1983 suits, and government debt-recovery actions, drawn from both the Jackson (Eastern) and Memphis (Western) divisions.
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