Clark Waddoups
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the court GRANTS IN PART Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment (Dkt. No. 49) ... The court finds the cohabitation prong of the Statute unconstitutional on numerous grounds and strikes it ... adopts the ... narrowing construction of the Statute, offered by the dissent in State of Utah v. Holm.”
“and DENIES Defendant's Cross Motion for Summary Judgment (Dkt. No. 55).”
“GRANTING IN PART, AND DENYING IN PART, DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS ... securities law claims ... GRANTED in part and DENIED in part ... FLSA minimum wage and overtime claims is DENIED ... FLSA retaliation claim is GRANTED ... contract claims is DENIED ... unjust enrichment claim is DENIED.”
“Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment is GRANTED, and Plaintiff's Complaint is DISMISSED with prejudice. This case is CLOSED.”
“Plaintiff's claims are time-barred, and are accordingly dismissed with prejudice. IT IS ORDERED that Defendant Huggard's motion to dismiss is GRANTED.”
“IT IS ORDERED that Respondents' motion to dismiss is GRANTED. (Doc. No. 35.) This action is CLOSED.”
“Cyber Operations has established that there are genuine disputes of material fact that preclude judgment in Mr. Williams' favor. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(a). Mr. Williams' motion for summary judgment (Dkt. No. 35) is therefore DENIED.”
“For the foregoing reasons, Defendants' motion to dismiss is GRANTED.”
“Plaintiffs have therefore failed to show that Airplanes West has made such minimum contacts with Utah in order to satisfy the court of its jurisdiction. ... Defendant Airplanes West's Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED.”
“Plaintiffs' effort to obtain these proceeds—pre- or post-receipt is preempted. Defendant's Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED.”
“The Court therefore denies Defendant's Motion to Dismiss. (ECF No. 18.) Defendant must move to the next stage of litigation.”
“For the foregoing reasons, the court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment, (Dkt. No. 22), and DENIES AS MOOT Defendants' Motion to Deny Amendment to Pleadings, (Dkt. No. 27).”
“CitiMortgage's motion to remand and for attorney fees (Dkt. No. 2) is GRANTED. The court remands this case to the state court and directs CitiMortgage to submit briefing as to the amount of costs and fees it incurred seeking remand.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 98 days (N = 9).
Median motion-to-ruling time: 312 days (N = 1).
Waddoups is a senior Salt Lake City district judge commissioned in 2008 and on senior status since January 31, 2019. His active-era docket included constitutional litigation concerning Utah's bigamy statute, American Samoa birthright citizenship in Fitisemanu, which the Tenth Circuit later reversed, and immigration law. The 2017-2019 sample also includes patent, diversity contract and insurance, Social Security, tax, public-accommodations, product-liability, wage-and-hour, and pro se prisoner civil-rights cases. This describes caseload composition rather than a grant rate.
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