Brendan L. Shannon
How Judge Shannon rules, drawn from 17 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
About Judge Shannon
Brendan L. Shannon has served as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Delaware since March 2006. He was reappointed in March 2020 and served as chief judge from 2014 through 2018. Before joining the bench, he was a partner at Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor in Wilmington.
Judge Shannon's practices and standing orders
Rules for cases before Judge Shannon, as published on the court's website (checked October 10, 2026). Judges revise these often, so confirm the current version on the court's site before you file.
Key rules
Conferences
Except for status, scheduling, pretrial, discovery, and fee hearings, proceedings are ordinarily held in person.
“Unless otherwise determined by Judge Shannon, all proceedings will take place in person other than status conferences, scheduling conferences, pretrial conferences, discovery hearings or fee hearings, which will be conducted remotely.”
Conferences
Register for Zoom in advance, using best efforts to complete registration at least two hours before the hearing.
“All Zoom participants are required to register in advance. Parties should use their best efforts to complete their registration at least 2 hours prior to the start of a hearing.”
Standing orders for every case in this court
Orders the court applies to all of its cases, whichever judge has them, as published on the court's website (checked October 10, 2026).
How Judge Shannon decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Cautions
A discovery request was rejected where it sought to reopen issues that had not changed and lacked a valid basis.
“The Court finds that Mr. Raveendran’s arguments for discovery on these new issues or so-called ‘concessions’ are groundless. The Complaint has not changed.”
A business relationship, without pleaded facts suggesting wrongful intent, did not establish actual fraudulent intent for a transfer.
“between the Debtor and transferee but nothing about that relationship suggests fraudulent intent.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the Trustee’s Motion to Amend is hereby GRANTED, in part, to allow the Trustee to amend the Original Complaint with respect to avoidance claims brought under Bankruptcy Code § 547 and 548, and Del. Code tit. 6 § 1304(a)(1); and (ii) the Trustee’s Motion to Amend is hereby DENIED, in part, with respect to avoidance claims brought under Del. Code tit. 6 § 1304(a)(2) and § 1305.”
“the Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED and the entirety of the Amended Complaint is DISMISSED.”
“ORDERED that the Motions to Dismiss are DENIED.”
“ORDERED that the Motion to Dismiss is DENIED.”
“First Motion to Strike, Second Motion to Strike, and the Discovery Motion are DENIED.”
“ORDERED that the Motions to Dismiss are DENIED.”
“ORDERED, that the Motion to Dismiss is GRANTED as to Counts II and III, and Count”
“will grant each of the Motions to Dismiss.”
“Summary Judgment Motions are DENIED.”
The consolidated signed order grants defendants' dismissal motions in part on Counts I-III with leave to amend. Five adversary captions and several motion entries appear, but the opinion does not map each distinct moving party and filing to the shared disposition clearly enough to count the filings. Retained as signed read evidence without classified motions.
“the Motion is DENIED, except with respect to Count I as against Covidien SARL, which is GRANTED.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Three terminated sampled matters lasted from 43 to 1,217 days, with a median of 248 days. The sample is descriptive and is not a complete caseload census.
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