Stephen Sanders Chandler Jr.
Judge Chandler no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Chandler decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
He treated government-authorized sonic-boom damage as a compensable taking rather than leaving property owners without a remedy.
“The Government had the obligation under the Constitution to pay just compensation.”
Cautions
He applied assumption of risk when a plaintiff continued using a known defective pipeline after prior ruptures.
“Plaintiff voluntarily assumed the risk of a known defect.”
He required regulated parties to exhaust the specialized administrative remedy before challenging a tariff’s reasonableness in court.
“the statutory remedies must be exhausted before the courts have jurisdiction to question the reasonableness of any provision.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“entered judgment in favor of the plaintiff for $2500.”
“The plaintiff and its. subrogated insurance carrier are entitled to recover judgment against the defendant in the sum of $7,548.25”
“the Motion for New Trial of the plaintiff, Mustang Fuel Corp., is denied.”
“Plaintiff’s Motion To Require Administrative Officials To Explain Basis For Action should be denied.”
“The decision of the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States should be affirmed.”
“concludes that a Permanent Injunction should be granted.”
“the complaint of Byron J. Gambulous and the intervening complaint of intervenor, R. Fred Parkhill, be and the same are hereby dismissed.”
“it is the duty of the Court under the law to find said motion, affidavits and certificate insufficient as a matter of law.”
“the plaintiff is entitled to recover a judgment against the defendant in the amount of $17,000”
“are hereby enjoined from continuing to fail and refuse to allot, distribute and disburse the $51,770,000 of funds appropriated by the Congress”
“The Government’s Motion to Dismiss is overruled.”
“the plaintiffs are entitled to just compensation for the temporary taking of the property for public use which damaged it.”
“The motion for summary judgment is sustained.”
“Judgment is entered for plaintiffs in the amount of $2,872.76”
A historical record
Judge Chandler 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.