Robert W. Trumble
How Judge Trumble rules, drawn from 27 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
How Judge Trumble decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In the reviewed cases, unopposed Reports and Recommendations received clear-error review and were adopted in full when no timely, specific objection was filed.
“As of the date of this Order, no objections have been filed. Therefore, after allowing additional time for transit in the mail, the Court finds that the deadline for the Plaintiff to submit objections to the R&R has passed. Accordingly, this Court will review the R&R for clear error.”
In Social Security appeals, this judge's recommendations methodically walk through each of a claimant's specific factual objections rather than relying on a blanket standard-of-review recitation, which the reviewing district judge has repeatedly found persuasive on adoption.
“the R&R correctly states the facts and applies the law. It does.”
Procedural preferences
This judge's habeas and Section 1983 recommendations regularly address jurisdictional and exhaustion threshold defects (Rooker-Feldman-type limits, PLRA administrative exhaustion, the Section 2241/2255 gatekeeping line) before reaching the merits, and dismissals resting on those grounds are entered without prejudice, leaving the door open to refiling once the defect is cured.
“the Plaintiff's Complaint [ECF No. 1] be DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE due to the Plaintiff's failure to exhaust his administrative remedies.”
Cautions
First Step Act earned-time-credit petitions face a high bar in the recommendations this judge has authored: both petitions reviewed here were denied because of independent eligibility disqualifiers (a final removal order; a high PATTERN recidivism-risk score) rather than any dispute over the credits' calculation.
“the Petitioner is not eligible to have time credits applied at this time because his PATTERN score has been consistently assessed as a high risk of recidivism.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“I RECOMMEND that Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (ECF No. 10) be DENIED, Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (ECF No. 13) be GRANTED, the decision of the Commissioner be affirmed and this case be DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”
“the Petitioner's Motion to Vacate [ECF No. 101 in 3:00-CR-64-2, ECF No. 1 in 3:17-CV-129] is DENIED and DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE. ... this Court hereby DENIES the Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability.”
“the Petitioner's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 is DENIED and DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.”
“the Plaintiff's Complaint [ECF No. 1] is DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE. The Plaintiff's [ECF No. 4] Motion to Proceed in forma pauperis is DENIED AS MOOT.”
“The Defendants' Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED. ECF No. 94. Thus, the Plaintiff's Amended Complaint is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”
“the Plaintiff's Complaint [ECF No. 1] be DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE due to the Plaintiff's failure to exhaust his administrative remedies. Further, the Court ORDERS that the Defendants' Motion to Dismiss [ECF No. 55] be GRANTED.”
“The Plaintiff's Complaint [ECF No. 1] is DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.”
“the Defendants' Motion to Dismiss [ECF No. 59] is GRANTED, and the Plaintiff's Amended Complaint is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”
“the Plaintiff's amended complaint [ECF No. 44] is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE, and the Defendants' Motion to Dismiss [ECF No. 51] is GRANTED.”
“the Plaintiff's Complaint [ECF No. 1] is DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE. The remaining motions are TERMINATED AS MOOT.”
“the Respondent's Motion to Dismiss [ECF No. 13] is GRANTED and the Petitioner's § 2241 Petition is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”
“the decision of the Commissioner be AFFIRMED and this case be DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE, and the Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment [ECF No. 22] be TERMINATED as MOOT.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
- Apart from Reports and Recommendations reviewed by district judges, Trumble's docket includes search- and seizure-warrant applications, initial appearances and detention proceedings, petty-offense and misdemeanor matters, and civil cases referred for settlement-week mediation.
- The sampled misdemeanor matters generally resolved by plea, while the mediated civil cases ended in mediator reports rather than contested rulings.
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