Robert H. Jacobvitz
How Judge Jacobvitz rules, drawn from 25 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
How Judge Jacobvitz decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
A developed service record defeated a claim that a default judgment was void for lack of personal jurisdiction.
“This Court has personal jurisdiction over Mr. Toribio and the Default Judgment entered against him is not void for lack of proper service.”
Back-to-back bankruptcy filings did not establish bad faith when the later filing preserved a lien-avoidance opportunity lost through unexpected case closure.
“Under these circumstances, the Court concludes that Debtor’s filing of the Third Case and Fourth Case was not part of a scheme to delay, hinder, or defraud Creditors.”
Procedural preferences
A state court was the preferred forum for continuing collection against a non-debtor entity after entering the underlying judgment.
“the State Court is the appropriate place for FCM to pursue collection remedies against AutoDoc, a non-debtor co-defendant.”
Cautions
An entity must establish valid authority existing on the petition date; post-petition efforts did not cure the defect.
“What is clear is that Daniel Galvan did not have that authority on June 5, 2025, and that Debtor’s subsequent efforts to demonstrate its authority to file bankruptcy as of the petition date have failed.”
A party relying on medical conditions for an undue-hardship claim risked evidence preclusion if it refused ordered medical discovery.
“If the Court imposes this sanction, Plaintiff will not be able to rely on any medical conditions to support her claim that repayment of the student loan debt will cause her an undue hardship.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The Court will enter a separate order consistent with this Memorandum Opinion denying the Motion to Set Aside Default Judgment.”
“Based on the foregoing, the Court will deny Century Bank’s Emergency Motion to Appoint Chapter 11 Trustee.”
“The Court will enter a separate order denying relief from the stay.”
“The Court will, therefore, sustain FNB’s objection to confirmation, and deny confirmation of Debtor’s chapter 13 plan, without prejudice to the filing of an amended plan.”
“For the reasons stated above, the Court will enter an order remanding this adversary proceeding to the State Court.”
“Because the District Court ruled on appeal that the Plan administrative claim bar date did not apply to the County’s claim and this Court has denied the laches defense, the Court will allow the County’s administrative expense claim for 2018 Livestock Taxes in the amount claimed.”
“Consistent with this Memorandum Opinion the Court will enter separate orders 1) denying Mr. Lincoln’s Motion for Jurisdictional Discovery and Evidentiary Hearing; and 2) granting the Motion to Remand, in part, and remanding the Disciplinary Proceeding to the Supreme Court for the State of New Mexico.”
“Based on the foregoing, the Court concludes that Debtor is entitled to avoid DNCU’s judicial lien in its entirety pursuant to § 522(f).”
“ORDERED FURTHER, that the request in Count I of the Complaint for the Court to determine that the Writ of Garnishment is void for lack of jurisdiction is DENIED.”
“WHEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Motion to Compel is GRANTED, in part, as follows:”
“For the reasons set forth in this Memorandum Opinion, the Court will enter an order denying the Summary Judgment Motion without prejudice.”
“Because Rainier and Wais are the only objecting parties and they do not have the Right to be Heard on their Objection to the Motion to Sell, the Court will grant the Motion.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
All five sampled matters were recorded as terminated, with a median recorded duration of 98 days. Their public entry streams contained zero retained entries, so no motion result or latency was inferred.
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