Francis I. Yamashita
How Judge Yamashita decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Yamashita treated relevance and procedural regularity—not the ultimate merits of an agency charge—as the central questions when enforcing an administrative subpoena.
“Thus this Court can not consider whether Dr. Kajiwara’s discrimination claim is meritorious in making its decision whether or not to enforce the administrative subpoena.”
Procedural preferences
He required diligence and good cause before allowing amendments after the case had progressed.
“The magistrate reasoned that Plaintiffs had neither recited good cause nor established due diligence sufficient for an amendment at that time.”
Cautions
He did not shield responsive, nonprivileged documents merely because they might not ultimately be admitted.
“Though not necessarily admissible, this Court finds that the three documents are discoverable.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“this Court issued an Order Denying Defendants’ Motion for Protective Order (‘underlying Order’).”
“Finding no basis for reconsideration, this Court denied Defendants’ Request for Reconsideration on June 30, 2000 (‘Reconsideration Order’).”
“In accordance with the foregoing, this Court GRANTS the EEOC’s Application for an Order Enforcing Administrative Subpoena.”
“For the foregoing reasons, this Court GRANTS Defendant’s motion for summary judgment.”
“Belgard’s motion for a temporary restraining order is DENIED.”
“the court AFFIRMS the rulings of the magistrate judge denying plaintiff’s motion to strike pleadings and to sanction counsel.”
“The court ADOPTS the report and recommendation of the magistrate judge with respect to its conclusion that summary judgment be granted in favor of defendants on plaintiff’s claims for damages against defendants for actions in their official and individual capacities.”
“The court DENIES plaintiff’s motion for preliminary injunction as moot.”
“the court DENIES plaintiffs appeal from magistrate’s order denying plaintiffs motion to defer.”
“The court DENIES plaintiffs appeal from the magistrate’s order granting defendant’s motion for protective order and denying plaintiffs motion to compel discovery.”
“Magistrate Judge Yamashita issued a Findings and Recommendation (‘the F & R’) granting Mitsui’s motion and denying the counter motions filed by USPB and INA.”
“recommended that this Court remand all state law claims against OHA and all claims against Ogata and Yee in their official capacities to state court.”
“ORDER AFFIRMING MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO REMAND”
“On June 3, 1996, Magistrate Judge Yamashita denied Plaintiffs' Second Motion to Amend Complaint, which was filed on April 26, 1996.”
“on June 18, 1996, the magistrate again denied without prejudice Plaintiffs’ Motion to Amend Complaint.”
“Defendant’s motion to strike this final amended complaint was denied by Magistrate Judge Yamashita on October 10,1995.”
“Per the above, the Court REMANDS the Magistrate’s Findings and Recommendation.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
At least 44 assigned civil cases were located across 1993–2000. The located files were all terminated and form a bounded historical cohort, not a career-wide caseload measure.
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