Jared C. Bennett
How Judge Bennett decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Procedural preferences
Firm on abusive serial/pro se litigation: recommends 1915(e)(2) dismissal WITH prejudice and restricted-filer designations where complaints are frivolous and amendment would be futile.
“each of the complaints in the above captioned cases are DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE pursuant to the IFP Statute, 28 U.S.C. 1915(e)(2)(B) ... Cuara Rodriguez [is designated] a restricted filer in this District”
Cautions
Applies Rule 15 futility rigorously: denies leave to amend where proposed federal claims are subject to dismissal and remaining state-law claims would lack an independent jurisdictional basis (no supplemental jurisdiction).
“Plaintiff's proposed excessive force claims are futile because they are subject to dismissal. Furthermore, Plaintiff's proposed state-law claims are likewise futile because exercising supplemental jurisdiction over them is not proper in the absence of any viable federal claims.”
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.
| Social security appeal N = 1 |
Denied: 1 | counts only |
| Involuntary dismissal N = 1 |
Granted: 1 | counts only |
| Screening dismissal N = 1 |
Granted: 1 | counts only |
| Motion for leave N = 1 |
Denied: 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.
“the Report and Recommendation (Dkt. No. 26) is ADOPTED. The Commissioner's final decision in this case is hereby AFFIRMED.”
“The Report and Recommendation, ECF No. 26, is ADOPTED IN FULL. ... The court DISMISSES this action without prejudice.”
“the Report and Recommendation in each of the above captioned cases is ADOPTED. ... Cuara Rodriguez's pending IFP motions are DENIED and his IFP status is REVOKED ... each of the complaints in the above captioned cases are DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE pursuant to the IFP Statute, 28 U.S.C. 1915(e)(2)(B) ... Cuara Rodriguez [is designated] a restricted filer in this District”
“the Report and Recommendation of Magistrate Judge Bennett is adopted in its entirety. ... Plaintiff's Motion for Leave to File an Amended Complaint is DENIED.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Salt Lake City magistrate (since 2020-06-01). Enumerable assigned_judge slice (2026 pending) is a broad civil mix where he is the assigned magistrate: insurance/contract, trademark, APA/agency-review (incl. HHS reimbursement), Social Security disability appeals (Commissioner Bisignano), and pro se civil-rights / US-defendant matters. His referral merits R&Rs (SS affirm/remand, prisoner civil-rights, IFP screening) are reviewed by the district judges and appear in the reasoning layer. Composition only; not a grant rate.