Arlene R. Lindsay
How Judge Lindsay decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Procedural preferences
On multi-defendant default-judgment motions she follows the Frow/consistency rule: where some defendants default but others are still litigating, she will recommend DENYING default judgment against the defaulters WITH LEAVE TO RENEW until the non-defaulting defendants' liability is resolved, to avoid inconsistent judgments (Sidik v. Royal Sovereign). Don't expect a default judgment against one of several jointly-liable defendants while the case continues against the others.
“Judge Lindsay recommended that the Court deny the Plaintiffs’ motion for default judgment with leave to renew, after a determination of the rights and liabilities of [the non-defaulting defendants].”
Cautions
On unopposed ERISA/Taft-Hartley fund default judgments (a large share of her Central Islip referral diet) she independently fixes damages to a reasonable certainty -- unpaid contributions, interest, liquidated damages, fees and costs are itemized in her R&R and adopted as a sum certain (Gesualdi v. Deland; Gesualdi v. Bestech). Come with audit-supported damages math.
“plaintiffs’ request for damages, costs, and fees is granted. The Court hereby directs that plaintiffs recover damages from defendant in the amount of $307,977.91”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the 2014 Report and Recommendation is adopted as if set forth herein, and plaintiffs’ request for damages, costs, and fees is granted. The Court hereby directs that plaintiffs recover damages from defendant in the amount of $307,977.91”
“Judge Lindsay’s R&R (Docket Entry 21) is ADOPTED in its entirety and Plaintiffs’ motion for a default judgment (Docket Entry 10) is GRANTED.”
“Judge Lindsay recommended that the Court deny the Plaintiffs’ motion for default judgment with leave to renew, after a determination of the rights and liabilities of Royal Sovereign International, Inc., Royal Centurian Inc., and BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc.. ... Accordingly, the R&R is adopted in its entirety.”
“the plaintiff’s motion to amend the complaint is denied insofar as it seeks to add the third cause of action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and granted to the extent that plaintiff is permitted to amend the complaint to add paragraphs 9, 91, and 94.”
“IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff’s motion to strike is denied in its entirety.”
“Accordingly, the Court grants Long Beach's motion to dismiss without prejudice. Booker may amend her complaint as against Long Beach within thirty days of this Order but only if she is able to address the deficiencies outlined in this decision.”
“Because there is no dispute that written notice of the defect allegedly responsible for Plaintiff's injury was not provided to the TOOB, and there is no proof offered that the TOOB created the defect through an affirmative act of negligence, or the defect resulted from a special use of the property by the TOOB, the TOOB's motion for summary judgment is granted.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
An Eastern District of New York referral magistrate in Central Islip on Long Island. A sample of her currently assigned (pending) dockets shows a Long Island civil referral mix: mortgage foreclosure and commercial contract, product-liability tort, FLSA labor, civil-rights employment and ADA, truth-in-lending, immigration, and criminal duty-magistrate matters. Consistent with the sampled recommendations, her substantive referral work runs heavily to default-judgment and benefit-fund cases alongside general Long Island civil matters. This is a current-snapshot composition, not a full-tenure caseload.
Put Judge Lindsay's record to work
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Opens in Ezel Pro. Every answer is grounded in Judge Lindsay's own signed orders and cites them.