J. Barrett Marum

How Judge Marum rules, drawn from 6 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Court
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of California
Position
bankruptcy
Appointed by
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Commissioned
2024-08-30
Education
University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 2000; University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, J.D., 2003
Signed orders read
6

How Judge Marum decides

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

What persuades

A co-owned-property sale required a concrete benefit to unsecured creditors, not merely payment of administrative expenses.

“Should the Plaintiff obtain an offer that will generate a twenty-five percent distribution to unsecured creditors, the Court will approve the sale.”

Procedural preferences

Counsel using generative tools remains responsible for checking every citation before filing.

“the attorney must verify that the AI-generated legal citations in any court-filed documents are true and correct.”

Cautions

A single-asset real-estate plan that requires wholesale material changes will not defeat stay relief merely because a different plan might later be proposed.

“When a plan requires wholesale material changes, though, as would be required in this case pursuant to the analysis under Section 362(d)(2) above, the debtor has not submitted a plan of reorganization that has a reasonable possibility of being confirmed within a reasonable time.”

Signed rulings

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

In re Side Yard Public House, Inc. and Milovan, Inc.
25-04126 / 25-04127 · 2026-06-23
Plan confirmation (debtors) Granted

“the Court confirmed the Debtors’ Subchapter V plan on a consensual basis pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 1191(a).”

Barclay v. Mendez
25-90035 · 2026-05-01
Sale of co owned property (Chapter 7 trustee) Granted in part

“The Court thus conditionally authorizes the sale of the Property subject to the Trustee’s obtaining a further order of the Court explicitly authorizing the sale”

Motion for turnover (Chapter 7 trustee) Granted in part

“turnover of the Property under Section 542(a) is appropriate subject to the same conditions for the sale of the Property”

Request for permanent injunction (Chapter 7 trustee) Denied

“the injunction would not serve the public interest, the Court will not grant this request.”

Request for permanent injunction (Chapter 7 trustee) Granted

“the Court hereby enjoins the Defendant and the Debtor from disrupting or interfering with the Plaintiff’s efforts to prepare, market, and obtain offers for the Property.”

In re IMH Dallas Arioso, LLC
25-05061 · 2026-04-14
Motion for relief from stay (secured lender) Granted

“Accordingly, the Court GRANTS the Motion.”

In re Mount Acadia Senior Properties LLC
25-05308 · 2026-02-05
Motion to dismiss bankruptcy case (Live Oak Banking Company) Granted

“The Court DISMISSES the Chapter 11 case;”

Request to excuse turnover (Live Oak Banking Company) Moot / procedural

“Live Oak’s alternative request for relief, with respect to authorizing excuse of the Receiver’s turnover of estate property under 11 U.S.C. § 543(d)(1), is DENIED AS MOOT.”

In re Stone
94-09384 · 2026-01-07
Motion for civil contempt (debtor) Denied

“the Court declines to impose civil contempt sanctions on Education pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§ 105(a) and 524(a)(2).”

Gladstone v. Peatross
24-90036 · 2025-12-05
Court initiated sanctions Granted

“Based on the foregoing, the Court imposes sanctions on Counsel pursuant to Rule 9011 and its inherent powers authority.”

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