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The enactment of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 changed the role of bankruptcy judge to one more closely resembling its modern form, with 14-year appointments. While referees/judges had previously had a participatory role in shepherding the bankruptcy process along, the 1978 Act changed this to a more traditionally judge-like role limited to ...
This category is for persons who have been judges of a United States bankruptcy court. Pages in category "Judges of the United States bankruptcy courts" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.
Federal courts located in California United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (headquartered in San Francisco , having jurisdiction over the United States District Courts of Alaska, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, the Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, and Washington)
Judge Duty station Born Term of service Appointed by Active Chief Senior; 31 Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore: Washington, D.C. 1968 2006–present 2021–present — G.W. Bush: 16 Circuit Judge Pauline Newman [d] [e] Washington, D.C. 1927 1984–present — — Reagan: 22 Circuit Judge Alan David Lourie: Washington, D.C. 1935 1990–present ...
Former Orange County Complex Litigation Program judge Gail A. Andler [56] is a past president of the American College of Business Court Judges (ACBCJ), [57] and a number of California's complex litigation judges (including judge Elihu Berle [58]), and Minnesota complex litigation judge Jerome B. Abrams, [59] have served as Business Court ...
Map of the boundaries of the 94 United States District Courts. The district courts were established by Congress under Article III of the United States Constitution. The courts hear civil and criminal cases, and each is paired with a bankruptcy court. [2] Appeals from the district courts are made to one of the 13 courts of appeals, organized ...
On July 13, 2015, DonJon filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut with a debt of $32,509,549.91. Modern bankruptcy law often distinguishes reorganization , in which only some of the bankrupt's assets are taken, a repayment plan is devised and part of the debt is discharged , from ...
Originally, bankruptcy in the United States, as nearly all matters directly concerning individual citizens, was a subject of state law. However, there were several short-lived federal bankruptcy laws before the Act of 1898: the Bankruptcy Act of 1800, [3] which was repealed in 1803; the Act of 1841, [4] which was repealed in 1843; and the Act of 1867, [5] which was amended in 1874 [6] and ...