Lena M. James

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

Court
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
Position
bankruptcy
Commissioned
2013-12-11
Signed orders read
1

How Judge James decides

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

Cautions

A debtor's failure to provide accurate notice, communicate promptly, and mitigate avoidable damages weighed against sanctions for a technical stay violation.

“Overall, the record leaves the impression of an opportunistic debtor creating the conditions for a technical violation of the stay and then seizing upon the creditor’s misstep to pursue manufactured damages akin to those discussed in Preston.”

Signed rulings

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

In re Swaim
25-50593 · 2026-05-27
Motion for sanctions for stay violation (Brandon Keith Swaim) Denied

“Therefore, for the foregoing reasons, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Debtor’s Amended Motion for Sanctions against Weidl Properties LLC is DENIED.”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

All eight sampled matters were terminated. Seven streams supplied 24 express motion outcomes, while one supplied no separately classifiable disposition.

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