James Edward Doyle
How Judge Doyle decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Doyle required prison officials to support asserted justifications with facts rather than allegations in a dismissal brief.
“none of the factual allegations contained in defendants’ brief may be accepted for the purposes of a motion to dismiss.”
Doyle treated a collective-bargaining agreement as no defense to perpetuating an unlawful pay disparity.
“[A] collective bargaining agreement perpetuating prior pay discrimination affords the employer no defense to a charge under the Equal Pay Act.”
Procedural preferences
Doyle enforced a statutory notice deadline before permitting judicial review of an arbitration award.
“by failing to comply with the statutory precondition of the timely serving of notice, plaintiffs have forfeited their right to judicial review of the arbitration award.”
Doyle protected confidential third-party records absent a valid right of access.
“There is good reason to maintain the confidentiality of such individual registrants’ records in view of the personal data, medical and otherwise, which they contain.”
Cautions
Doyle required concrete prejudice before converting a voluntary dismissal into one with prejudice.
“The mere prospect of a second lawsuit is not a persuasive ground for the denial of a motion to dismiss without prejudice.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“defendants’ motion to dismiss is hereby denied.”
“the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction is hereby denied.”
“the motion to intervene of the Department of Revenue, State of Wisconsin is hereby granted.”
“defendants’ motion for summary judgment is denied.”
“defendant’s motions for discovery, filed October 6, 1972, and October 31, 1972, are denied.”
“Accordingly, on the basis of the entire record herein and for the reasons stated above, it is hereby ordered, that the indictment herein is dismissed.”
“defendants’ motion to dismiss is hereby granted and this suit is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.”
“plaintiffs’ motion to strike defendant’s demand for jury trial is hereby granted.”
“It is ordered that defendants’ motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and for failure to state a claim is granted.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No assigned docket records were returned for Doyle’s tenure, so no caseload mix or case-duration summary is available.
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