Court Opinions

Welcome to the opinions page for Judge Patrick M. Flatley. Along the left are summaries of and links to opinions issued by Judge Flatley beginning April 5, 2006 to present.  The opinions, sorted by date issued, are listed in reverse chronological order. To view a list of the opinions issued by Judge Flatley please click one of the options on the left. If you are searching for specific content within any of the opinions, please try the 'Search Opinions' feature. To view/download any of Judge Flatley's opinions, please click on the hyper links for those opinions.

Text Searchable Opinions entered prior to 4/5/2006 are available directly through the CM/ECF filing system at https://ecf.wvnb.uscourts.gov - located under "Reports" as "Written Opinions". You will need a CM/ECF login/password to search for opinions, and a Pacer login/password to view actual documents. There is no charge for viewing written opinion PDFs.

Opinions are posted in "portable document format" ( PDF ). You need Adobe Reader to view the PDF files.