James Edgar Kinkeade
How Judge Kinkeade decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
A party carrying the burden at summary judgment must connect the evidence to every essential element; an appraisal award alone does not establish liability on insurance claims.
“Plaintiff does not reference or analyze the elements of any of its four claims, and certainly fails to submit summary judgment evidence proving ‘beyond peradventure’ all of the essential elements of even one of these claims.”
Accepts magistrate findings and recommendations; grants a defendant's summary judgment, dismissing all claims with prejudice.
“Defendant City of Dallas's Motion for Summary Judgment, Doc. 49, is GRANTED, and all of Plaintiff's claims are DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”
Procedural preferences
On personal-jurisdiction challenges, dismisses without prejudice for lack of jurisdiction while allowing claims against other defendants to proceed.
“The Court therefore GRANTS Defendant Ethan Van Sciver's motion to dismiss [Dkt. No. 19] to the extent that the claims against him are dismissed without prejudice for lack of personal jurisdiction”
Denies motions for default judgment without prejudice, affording the defaulting defendant additional time to appear.
“Plaintiff's ‘Motion for Entry of Default Judgment Against Defendants’ (ECF No. 18) is DENIED without prejudice, and Defendant Tekle has 30 days from this Order's date to file his answer, motion to dismiss, motion to set aside the Clerk's entry of default, or a 1404(a) motion to transfer venue.”
Cautions
In habeas, denies a petition with prejudice where it is time-barred under the statute of limitations.
“The Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody, received on December 23, 2019 (doc. 3), is DENIED with prejudice as barred by the statute of limitations as to the petitioner's second ground for relief.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The Court grants the Motion to Dismiss, denies as futile the Plaintiff's Opposed Motion for Leave to File Amended Complaint (as to which the Court therefore need not wait for a response), and declines to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the state law claims.”
“The Court therefore GRANTS Defendant Ethan Van Sciver's motion to dismiss [Dkt. No. 19] to the extent that the claims against him are dismissed without prejudice for lack of personal jurisdiction”
“the Court DENIES the motion to dismiss filed by Defendant Ali ‘Dean’ Assaf a/k/a ‘DA Talk’ [Dkt. No. 26].”
“Defendant City of Dallas's Motion for Summary Judgment, Doc. 49, is GRANTED, and all of Plaintiff's claims are DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”
“the Court OVERRULES Defendants' Objections [Dkt. No. 38] and DENIES Defendants' Motion to Partially Dismiss Plaintiff's First Amended Complaint and Motion for a More Definite Statement [Dkt. No. 27].”
“DENIES Defendants' Motion to Partially Dismiss Plaintiff's First Amended Complaint and Motion for a More Definite Statement [Dkt. No. 27].”
“Plaintiff's ‘Motion for Entry of Default Judgment Against Defendants’ (ECF No. 18) is DENIED without prejudice, and Defendant Tekle has 30 days from this Order's date to file his answer, motion to dismiss, motion to set aside the Clerk's entry of default, or a 1404(a) motion to transfer venue.”
“the Respondent's Motion to Dismiss Turner's First Ground as Moot with Brief in Support, received on March 31, 2022 (doc. 15), is GRANTED, and the petitioner's first ground for relief is DISMISSED for lack of jurisdiction.”
“The Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in State Custody, received on December 23, 2019 (doc. 3), is DENIED with prejudice as barred by the statute of limitations as to the petitioner's second ground for relief.”
“Because Plaintiff has sufficiently stated his claims, the Court DENIES Defendant’s Rule 12(b)(6) Motion to Dismiss.”
“The Court GRANTS General Binding’s Motion to Dismiss and DISMISSES all of Ms. Williams’s claims without prejudice. If she has a good faith basis to do so, Ms. Williams MAY FILE an amended pleading no later than fourteen days after the entry of this order.”
“Accordingly, the Court DENIES Plaintiff’s Motion to Enforce Appraisal Award and for Summary Judgment (the ‘Motion’) (Doc. No. 35).”
“Plaintiff’s Motion to Reconsider Judgment is DENIED.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Caseload mix is illustrative from the docket search sample, not an authoritative caseload denominator. The MDL dominance means a naive nature-of-suit count would massively over-weight product liability; this is a transferee-judge artifact, not his ordinary direct docket.
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