George Cromwell Scott
Judge Scott no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Scott decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In mixed interstate and intrastate employment, Scott required the employee to identify when and to what extent interstate work occurred before awarding federal overtime compensation.
“the burden is upon him to point out what part of his work was in intrastate and what part in interstate commerce, and the extent of the interstate work and when performed.”
He applied the civil rules to permit related claims to be joined even when older procedure would have required one claim to reach judgment first.
“Whenever a claim is one heretofore cognizable only after another claim has been prosecuted to a conclusion, the two claims may be joined in a single action.”
Procedural preferences
After an appellate ruling, Scott treated the decided issue as law of the case and would not permit repeated amendments to reopen it.
“The matter having been settled on the first appeal, became the law of the case.”
When jurisdictional allegations were curable, Scott dismissed without prejudice and gave a defined period to submit a substituted complaint and seek reinstatement.
“with leave, however, to present an amended and substituted complaint with application to reinstate within twenty days”
Cautions
Scott would not uphold a deportation hearing that relied heavily on ex parte and hearsay material while denying meaningful rulings on evidentiary objections.
“The right to object intelligently and to get a ruling upon objections to testimony was denied.”
He required a restrictive covenant to be reasonably necessary to protect the employer and demanded proof of likely irreparable injury before granting preliminary relief.
“the restrictive covenant is not reasonably necessary for the protection of the basic contract, or any of plaintiff’s legal rights therein.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the order of the referee, denying the motion of the bankrupt to set aside the property as exempt, is approved and affirmed.”
“said order.should and the same is hereby affirmed.”
“the order of the referee, which is now reviewed, be modified”
“the order of the referee reviewed will be affirmed.”
“petition of the bankrupt for discharge is denied.”
“the petition of the creditors for involuntary adjudication in bankruptcy be and the same is-hereby dismissed.”
Scott directed that the partnership assets remain under the state court receiver, with any surplus attributable to the bankrupt partner accounted for to the bankruptcy trustee. The order stated: “The partnership assets should remain with the receiver of the state court.”
“The order of the referee under review is therefore reversed”
“plaintiff is entitled to a decree enjoining further infringement by the defendants”
“the order of the referee must be and is hereby affirmed.”
“the interlocutory injunction heretofore decreed should be made permanent”
“the order of the referee is erroneous and should be and is reversed in its entirety.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No case-level docket record assigned under Scott's name was returned for his tenure. The profile therefore makes no claim about his complete caseload mix, case duration, administrative dispositions, or motion timing.
A historical record
Judge Scott no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.