Joan A. Lloyd
How Judge Lloyd rules, drawn from 2 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
How Judge Lloyd decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Procedural preferences
A request to reconsider a legal ruling does not require an evidentiary hearing when the dispute turns on governing law and the contracts' text.
“This is strictly a matter of law and the Court’s conclusions are based on the law. An evidentiary hearing will not change these conclusions.”
Cautions
The court declined to accept contractual workarounds that displaced the Chapter 7 fee structure established by Congress.
“it is not this Court’s position to find clever ‘work arounds’ of the fee structure determined by Congress. It is this Court’s job to enforce the Bankruptcy Code as written.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the Motion to Reconsider or Set Aside Memorandum Decision and Related Orders and to Allow a Response and a Hearing filed by Harris and Harris, PSC, is hereby DENIED.”
In a court-initiated ruling, the court prohibited the bifurcated Chapter 7 fee agreements used in the eleven cases.
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