René Lastreto II

How Judge Lastreto rules, drawn from 1 signed order. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Court
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California
Position
bankruptcy
Appointed by
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Commissioned
2015-09-14
Education
University of Utah, undergraduate degree, cum laude, 1978; University of San Francisco, J.D., 1981
Signed orders read
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How Judge Lastreto decides

Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

What persuades

A prior state-court judgment can establish nondischargeable defalcation when the governing issue was already necessarily decided.

“judgment shall be entered in favor of Susan P. Peterson and against Michael Lloyd Lusk that the sum of $146,877.00 awarded by the Ventura County Superior Court is nondischargeable under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(4).”

Signed rulings

A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.

Peterson v. Lusk (In re Lusk)
· 2018-07-05

After trial, the court held the state-court award nondischargeable and reserved attorney fees.

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

Completed-case duration is reported for 5 terminated matters in the fixed sample.

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