August B. Landis
How Judge Landis rules, drawn from 3 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
About Judge Landis
August B. Landis has served as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Nevada since November 27, 2013. He was chief judge of the court from April 2020 through March 2025.
Judge Landis's practices and standing orders
Rules for cases before Judge Landis, 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
Filing
Send courtesy copies with tabbed exhibits for documents exceeding 30 pages.
“In All Matters: Courtesy copies are required for each document (including attached exhibits) that exceeds 30 pages. Attached exhibits must be separated by tabs.”
Filing
For Chapter 11 cases, submit courtesy copies of the plan and any disclosure statement when counsel submits a confirmation hearing order.
“When a confirmation hearing order is submitted to the Court by counsel, courtesy copies of the related plan and disclosure statement (if any) are required.”
Conferences
Appear at a scheduled hearing if the stipulation and order continuing it are not on the docket.
“If a Stipulation and Order to continue a hearing are not on docket by the time of the scheduled hearing, counsel is required to appear for the 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 Landis decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
A creditor defending a stale claim must produce evidence once the debtor rebuts the claim's initial validity.
“LVNV did not offer even a scintilla of evidence to persuade this Court that the stale Claims it filed in this case should be allowed”
Procedural preferences
Plan proponents must address both disposable-income and good-faith requirements when confirmation is contested.
“Trustee’s objection to confirmation of Plan #2 under Section 1325(b)(1)(B) is therefore SUSTAINED, and confirmation of Plan #2 is DENIED.”
Cautions
An unopposed claim objection can still fail when the debtor's own schedules admit the debt.
“Barnes attempts to disallow a claim she admits.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Debtor’s Objection to LVNV’s Claim 4-1 in the amount of $9,379.75 is SUSTAINED, and that claim is DISALLOWED in its entirety”
“Debtor’s Objection to LVNV’s Claim 5-1 in the amount of $924.84 is SUSTAINED and that claim is DISALLOWED in its entirety”
“Debtor’s Objection to LVNV’s Claim 6-1 in the amount of $845.08 is SUSTAINED and that claim is DISALLOWED in its entirety”
“Debtor is awarded, and LVNV shall remit to Debtor through her counsel, all attorney’s fees and expenses incurred by Debtor in successfully prosecuting the Oppositions”
“Trustee’s Dismissal Motion [ECF No. 60] is DENIED.”
“Trustee’s objection to confirmation of Plan #2 under Section 1325(b)(1)(B) is therefore SUSTAINED, and confirmation of Plan #2 is DENIED.”
“the Objection to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.’s Proof of Claim No. 3 (ECF No. 25) ... must be overruled”
“Objection to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.’s Proof of Claim No. 5 (ECF No. 27) must be overruled”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The five matched streams ranged from six to eighty-four entries. Three contained express dismissal or plan-confirmation results; generic order labels and text-dark attachments were excluded.
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