Karen B. Owens

How Judge Owens rules, drawn from 10 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Court
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware
Position
bankruptcy
Commissioned
2019-06-17
Signed orders read
10

How Judge Owens decides

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

Cautions

Voluntarily dismissing and refiling substantially similar claims in another venue can support a costs award when it produces needless duplicate work.

“The behavior is not in good faith as Plaintiffs’ urge this Court to find. It is forum shopping and vexatious.”

Signed rulings

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

FTX Recovery Trust v. Patel
24-50216 · 2025-10-27
Motions to dismiss (Neil Patel and affiliated defendants) Granted in part

“Counts V and VI with respect to the Big Deal Transfer and Earned Media Transfer are DISMISSED. The remainder of the relief requested in the Motion is DENIED.”

FTX Recovery Trust v. Farmington State Corporation
24-50197 · 2025-11-25

This order was superseded by an amended December 2, 2025 order clarifying that dismissal was without prejudice.

FTX Recovery Trust v. Farmington State Corporation
24-50197 · 2025-12-02
Motions to dismiss (Farmington State Corporation and related defendants) Granted

“the Amended Complaint is DISMISSED without prejudice.”

Motions to stay (Farmington State Corporation and related defendants) Moot / procedural

“the relief requested in the Motion to Stay is DENIED as moot.”

FTX Recovery Trust v. The Goodly Institute
24-50212 · 2026-02-27
Motions to dismiss (The Goodly Institute) Granted in part

“Count 6 is dismissed without prejudice. If the Trust wishes to amend, the Trust may file a motion seeking leave to do so pursuant to Federal Rule 15 within thirty (30) days of this Memorandum Order. The remainder of the relief requested in the Motion to Dismiss is denied.”

FTX Recovery Trust v. Farmington State Corporation
24-50197 · 2026-03-06
Motion to amend complaint (FTX Recovery Trust) Granted in part

“the Motion is granted with respect to Counts I and III of the SAC. The remainder of the relief requested in the Motion is denied.”

LB NewHoldco, LLC v. Trive Capital Management, LLC
25-50965 · 2026-03-30
Motions to dismiss (Trive defendants) Granted in part

“For the foregoing reasons, the Court hereby concludes and orders that: 1. Counts IV and V are dismissed. 2. Counts VII and VIII are dismissed with respect to defendants Trive and Damani. 3. All remaining relief requested in the Motions is denied.”

Motions to dismiss (Shafik Kassam) Granted in part
Motions to dismiss (management defendants) Granted in part
Motions to dismiss (Anil Damani and affiliated defendants) Granted in part
Tang v. CITIC Capital Holdings Ltd.
24-50020 · 2026-04-29
Rule 41d motion for costs (overlapping defendants) Granted

“the Court hereby grants the Rule 41(d) Motion”

In re Hudson 1701/1706, LLC
25-11853 · 2026-05-28
Motion to certify direct appeal (ground lessor) Granted

“the Section 365 Order is certified for direct appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit”

Medley LLC Liquidating Trust v. Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP
23-50121 · 2026-07-01
Summary judgment (Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP) Denied

“Eversheds’ Motion for Summary Judgment is DENIED.”

FTX Recovery Trust v. Binance Holdings Limited
24-50222 · 2026-07-24
Motion to dismiss or compel arbitration (Digital Anchor Holdings Limited) Granted in part

“For the reasons stated above, the following is hereby ORDERED: 1. Counts I through V of the Complaint against Defendants Lim and Xiao are dismissed. 2. Counts VI through IX of the Complaint against the Binance Defendants are dismissed. 3. The remainder of the relief requested in the Motions is denied.”

Motions to dismiss (Binance corporate defendants) Granted in part
Motions to dismiss (Samuel Wenjun Lim) Granted in part
Motions to dismiss (Dinghua Xiao) Granted in part
Motions to dismiss (Changpeng Zhao) Granted in part

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

Four terminated sampled matters lasted from 36 to 622 days, with a median of 309 days. The sample is descriptive and is not a complete caseload census.

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