William Corwin Stuart
Judge Stuart no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Stuart decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Stuart declined to create broad new tort duties without a clear indication from governing state law, particularly where the proposed rule could discourage voluntary treatment.
“The Court will not create such a far-reaching duty to control without a clear indication that Iowa law provides for it.”
He required the agency to justify the termination of previously awarded disability benefits with evidence of improvement or genuinely new evidence.
“The Secretary has failed to make an affirmative showing that the claimant’s impairments were difficult to diagnose, and were not as severe as originally thought by the introduction of new and material evidence.”
Procedural preferences
Stuart realigned parties according to their actual litigation interests when testing complete diversity.
“Aligned according to their respective interest, the plaintiff should be suing both the Manufacturer and the College.”
He treated class certification as premature when the substantive scope of relief remained unresolved at an early pleading stage.
“At this stage in the litigation, the Court believes that class certification is premature.”
Cautions
A bankruptcy filing did not halt a government enforcement case through entry of judgment where the proceeding fell within the police-powers exception.
“allowing proceedings to proceed to the point at which judgment is entered will not interfere with the bankruptcy court’s control of the bankruptcy estate.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment should be and it is granted.”
“this Court must remand this case to the Secretary to proceed with the sequential evaluation shifting the burden to the Secretary to show that there are jobs in the national economy that plaintiff could perform.”
“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that defendants motion to dismiss is denied.”
“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that class certification is denied at this time.”
“the Court has determined not to alter or amend its earlier Order.”
“IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the case is dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.”
“IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that defendant’s motion for summary judgment shall be and hereby is granted.”
“IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the plaintiff’s motion to strike affirmative defenses two, three and six is granted.”
“It is hereby ordered, that the motion of the defendants, Albert Ainsworth and Lydia Ainsworth, to quash the return of service of summons is granted.”
“IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that defendant’s motion for summary judgment should be, and the same is hereby denied.”
“IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that defendant’s motion for summary judgment is granted and the Clerk of Court is authorized and directed to enter judgment in favor of defendant and against the plaintiff for the costs of this action.”
“It is therefore ordered that defendant United States of America’s Motion For Summary Judgment is hereby granted.”
“The defendants’ Motion for Relief from Judgment or Order is denied and the injunctive Order of May 3, 1965 shall remain in full force and effect.”
“The above named defendants stand in contempt of the May 3, 1965, Order of this court.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The classified active-tenure decisions predate a representative electronic case-level docket. The profile therefore makes no claim about complete caseload mix, duration, administrative dispositions, or motion timing.
A historical record
Judge Stuart 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.