James Boone Baxter
How Judge Baxter decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
On an inmate medical-care claim, disagreement with the treatment provided is not deliberate indifference -- a plaintiff must show the treatment was so deficient as to amount to a refusal to treat. Plead facts of a complete denial, not a dispute over the chosen course.
“Disagreement about the recommended medical treatment is generally not sufficient to show deliberate indifference.”
Procedural preferences
Resolves PLRA exhaustion (raised on summary judgment) together with a Rule 12 merits attack in one R&R and recommends dismissing the whole action without prejudice when both succeed.
“the motion for summary judgment ... and the motion to dismiss ... be granted and that the above-styled civil action be dismissed without prejudice.”
Motion outcomes
Counted from classified signed orders only. Percentages are shown only where the sample is large enough to be meaningful; smaller samples are reported as raw counts.
| Motions to dismiss N = 1 |
Granted: 1 | counts only |
| Summary judgment N = 1 |
Granted: 1 | counts only |
A "1 of 1" is one ruling, not a tendency. Treat small samples as illustrative, not predictive.
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“It is accordingly recommended that the motion for summary judgment of the Defendants Bennett, McGhee, Neal, and Ponder (Dkt. No. 37) ... be granted and that the above-styled civil action be dismissed without prejudice.”
“the motion to dismiss of the Defendants Ebey, Hillhouse, McFaul, Owenby, and Phipps (Dkt. No. 54) be granted and that the above-styled civil action be dismissed without prejudice.”
Criminal-duty Rule 11 guilty-plea F&R: Baxter conducted the plea colloquy and recommended the Court accept the guilty plea, conditionally approve the plea agreement, and adjudge the defendant guilty of Count One (21 U.S.C. 846, conspiracy to possess with intent to manufacture/distribute a controlled substance). District Judge Schroeder ADOPTED the R&R in full and entered a judgment of guilty. Recorded for adoption pattern; excluded from motion stats (criminal-duty recommendation).
Criminal-duty Rule 11 guilty-plea F&R: recommended accept plea + adjudge guilty of Count One (18 U.S.C. 2250(a), Failure to Register / SORNA). District Judge Schroeder ADOPTED in full. Excluded from motion stats.
Criminal-duty Rule 11 guilty-plea F&R: recommended accept plea + adjudge guilty of Count 1 of the First Superseding Indictment (21 U.S.C. 846, drug-distribution conspiracy). District Judge Schroeder ADOPTED in full. Excluded from motion stats.