Ross A. Walters
How Judge Walters decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Walters strictly enforces the local summary-judgment record rules. In Valdivia he treated the defendants' Statement of Undisputed Facts as admitted because the plaintiffs did not respond to it under Local Rule 56.1(b), which materially drove the grant. Practical lesson for counsel before him: file a complete LR 56.1 response or risk the movant's facts being deemed admitted.
“Plaintiffs have not filed a response to the Statement of Undisputed Facts filed by defendants in support of the motion and therefore by local rule the undisputed facts put forward by defendants are deemed admitted. LR 56.1(b).”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Defendants' motion for summary judgment is granted as to all remaining counts. The Clerk of Court shall enter judgment dismissing the complaint. IT IS SO ORDERED.”
“the Court concludes defendant's motion for summary judgment should be granted as to all counts of the Complaint. The Clerk shall enter judgment of dismissal. Motion granted. IT IS SO ORDERED.”
“defendant's motion is denied in part and granted in part. The motion is granted with respect to plaintiff's claims under the Iowa blacklisting statute and for tortious interference with a prospective contractual relationship. The motion is denied with respect to the ... Iowa Com[mon-law claim]”
“the Court concludes genuine issues of material fact exist which preclude summary judgment in Kliffs favor on either the Complaint or counterclaim. Kliffs motion for summary judgment is therefore denied. IT IS SO ORDERED.”
“In conformity with 15 U.S.C. § 78u-4(b)(3)(B) discovery in this action is stayed until the pending motions to dismiss the federal securities fraud claim are decided. ... Motion [119] granted.”
“Land O'Lakes' Motion for Summary Judgment requesting the Court to award damages for the purchase price of the July Shipment ($93,112.73) minus the security deposit ($3,600) for a total of $89,512.73 is granted. ... Land O'Lakes' Motion for Summary Judgment for the award of late fees is granted.”
“Defendant Mid-Iowa's motion for summary judgment [44] is granted. The Clerk shall enter judgment dismissing the Complaint.”
“The cross-motions for summary judgment [64] [66] are granted in part and denied in part in conformity with the foregoing findings and conclusions. ... Bonnie Wasko is the primary beneficiary of the optional life coverage. ... the children remain beneficiaries of the basic life policy proceeds.”
“Defendants' motion to compel/enforce their settlement agreement with plaintiff [674] is granted in part and denied in part. Plaintiff's motion to enforce settlement agreements [679] is granted.”
“plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment [14] on Count III of the complaint should be denied”
“that of defendant [25] granted. Count III of plaintiffs' complaint is dismissed.”
“The different inferences which can reasonably be drawn from the evidence in the summary judgment record precludes the Court from adjudicating that any defendant was a § 351.28 owner of Hershey as a matter of law. Motion [ 32] denied.”
“this Court concludes the Iowa Supreme Court would interpret Iowa Code § 614.1(2A)(a) to commence the running of the statute of repose in this case no earlier than in June or July 1989 ... It follows Werner's motion for summary judgment should be denied.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 400 days (N = 16).
Median motion-to-ruling time: 78 days (N = 1).
The sample covers 21 cases assigned to Ross A. Walters from 2010 through 2016, including consent civil cases, Social Security appeals, and several miscellaneous or criminal-magistrate matters. Four administrative-subpoena and petty-criminal matters do not contribute to the civil-duration figures.
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