Hon. Charles S. Haight, Jr. See Rating Details
District Judge See Comments
D.Conn.  
Average Rating:5.2 - 24 rating(s)
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*Temperament:   (1=Awful,10=Excellent)
*Scholarship:   (1=Awful,10=Excellent)
*Industriousness:   (1=Not at all industrious,10=Highly industrious)
*Ability to Handle Complex Litigation:    (1=Awful,10=Excellent)
*Punctuality:    (1=Chronic`y Late,10=Always on Time)
*Evenhandedness in Civil Litigation:    (1=Demonstrates Bias,10=Entirely Evenhanded)
*Evenhandedness in Criminal Litigation:   (1=Demonstrates Bias,10=Entirely Evenhanded)
Flexibility In Scheduling   (1=Completely Inflexible,10=Very Flexible)
General Inclination Regarding Bail (1=Pro-Defense,10=Pro-Government)
General Inclination in Criminal Cases, Pre-Trial:   (1=Pro-Defense,10=Pro-Government)
Involvement in Civil Settlement Discussions:   (1=Least Involved,10=Most Involved)
General Inclination in Criminal Cases, Trial:    (1=Pro-Defense,10=Pro-Government)
General Inclination in Criminal Cases, Sentencing:    (1=Most Lenient,10=Most Harsh)
Typical Discount Off Guidelines for Cooperators:    (1=10%,10=100%)
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Civil Litigation - Private

Comment #: 35501
Rating:Not Rated
Comments:
[Redacted by Ed.] pro insurance footsteps. Pompous. No trial skills. Helps the insurance companies and screw the victims. Shameful

Send e-mail to this poster 3/6/2024 7:37:29 PM

Civil Litigation - Private

Comment #: 35374
Rating:Not Rated
Comments:
this is ridiculous

maybe his clerk can just take over and pronounce herself in charge, crappy lawyer that she is

Send e-mail to this poster 11/1/2023 5:50:37 PM

Civil Litigation - Private

Comment #: 34484
Rating:1.8
Comments:
I read the comments. When a judge with a reputation for barring jury trials is writing 75 page opinions on a rule 12 motion, there is a serious problem.

Send e-mail to this poster 3/21/2022 4:16:22 PM

Other

Comment #: 34445
Rating:Not Rated
Comments:
You have a bunch of non-judges with no jury experience throwing cases out to keep the sacred skull and bones cow from really working. Disgusting. Doesn't write as well as he thinks he does.

Send e-mail to this poster 2/9/2022 6:37:25 PM

Criminal Defense Lawyer

Comment #: 34442
Rating:1.4
Comments:
I don't think he ever did a jury trial.

Send e-mail to this poster 2/4/2022 9:51:02 PM

Civil Litigation - Private

Comment #: 34430
Rating:1.3
Comments:
Uses Rules 12 and 56 as cudgels to prevent any case from evwr reaching and being decided by a jury. We can't have that now can we. Laughingly once stated that rule 56 'allegedly' didn't allow a judge to find facts.

Send e-mail to this poster 1/22/2022 7:28:17 PM

Civil Litigation - Private

Comment #: 34415
Rating:1.3
Comments:
Pompous and a corporate tool. Ruined Connecticut bench with fellow Yalie Underhill

Send e-mail to this poster 1/12/2022 8:59:28 PM

Criminal Defense Lawyer

Comment #: 24939
Rating:Not Rated
Comments:
Awful. Mandatory retirement please. The Founders did not envision this absurdity, this sinecure.

Send e-mail to this poster 11/8/2017 8:48:22 PM

Civil Litigation - Private

Comment #: 24837
Rating:1.2
Comments:
The lights are on. But no one is home.

Has a clerk who has never really gotten past second year of law school. Couldn't try a case if she had to.

Send e-mail to this poster 10/10/2017 7:32:28 PM

Civil Litigation - Private

Comment #: 24590
Rating:Not Rated
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In the words of Dante, abandon all hope, Ye plaintiffs who enter here. You are basically presenting your case to a defense firm. The best argument I've ever encountered for having not just judges but all any career clerk to disclose all conflicts of interest in a case based on their work histories.

Send e-mail to this poster 7/25/2017 6:19:20 AM

Civil Litigation - Private

Comment #: 24554
Rating:1.5
Comments:
Not a real court. Exists to throw cases out one way or another.

Send e-mail to this poster 7/7/2017 1:20:22 PM

Litigant

Comment #: 24043
Rating:1.0
Comments:
Terrible judge, pompous. Can he be sent back to New York.

Send e-mail to this poster 12/6/2016 9:48:48 PM

Civil Litigation - Private

Comment #: 23932
Rating:1.7
Comments:
As noted below by an earlier commenter, the bias in favor of corporate interests, and the government, is marked, obvious, and almost comical. Opinions have an air of not being written by him but clerks with no life or legal experience. Pretentious literary allusions (it's "legion" not "Legion" (unless there was a bizarre attempt to reference the New Testament)), make it worse.

Good time to retire.

Send e-mail to this poster 10/21/2016 8:19:10 PM

Civil Litigation - Private

Comment #: 23633
Rating:1.3
Comments:
Be prepared to have your Complaint micro-analyzed for three years or more. Fact pleading controls.

Basically makes Bleak House look like a rocket docket. Decisions are verbose and strewn with gratuitous, innumerable footnotes about irrelevancies such as President Ford and other tangents.

Send e-mail to this poster 7/19/2016 7:58:22 AM

Criminal Defense Lawyer

Comment #: 21871
Rating:5.7
Comments:
if you want to delay a case here, file something. Anything. It will delay the case for years. A defense lawyer's dream. seventh amendment has no practical application.

Send e-mail to this poster 6/26/2014 12:16:35 PM

Civil Litigation - Private

Comment #: 17682
Rating:10.0
Comments:
Superb judge and a consummate gentleman. A pleasure to appear before him.

Send e-mail to this poster 5/13/2012 1:14:20 PM

Litigant

Comment #: 11898
Rating:5.0
Comments:
Judge Haight exhibits pro-government bias!

Send e-mail to this poster 1/16/2011 8:59:36 PM

Civil Litigation - Private

Comment #: 10147
Rating:10.0
Comments:
Had my first case with him as he is now sitting in Connecticut. Boy, the New York bar really lost something when Haight moved to CT. A fine judge and a real gentleman. It was a pleasure to be before him. A throw back to the days when more federal judges were like him. Now he's a gem in the midst of a bunch of crude politicos.

Send e-mail to this poster 5/4/2010 8:49:13 PM

Criminal Defense Lawyer

Comment #: 8348
Rating:8.2
Comments:
I tried a civil jury case before him a few years back. He would seem to have been sent from central casting as the perfect judge: scholarly, a gentleman to the core, diligent, always willing to listen to argument with an open mind. I found him to be slightly biased in favor of the defense, but still mostly even-handed. I will probably never try a case before a better judge.

Send e-mail to this poster 3/6/2009 11:36:18 PM

Civil Litigation - Private

Comment #: 1242
Rating:9.6
Comments:
Another excellent jurist. Will give full attention to matters before the Court. Very detail oriented - woe to those who try to slip one past this Judge! Also, a great maritime judge.

Send e-mail to this poster 6/23/2006 11:12:24 AM

Criminal Defense Lawyer

Comment #: 1009
Rating:10.0
Comments:
Haven't tried a case in front of him but hope to before he retires. An excellent judge in all respects. A credit to the bench.

Send e-mail to this poster 6/1/2006 6:46:48 PM