Alan M. Koschik

How Judge Koschik rules, drawn from 24 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Court
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Position
bankruptcy
Commissioned
2014-05-02
Signed orders read
24

How Judge Koschik decides

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

What persuades

A creditor seeking a Chapter 13 secured-claim interest rate above the prime-plus formula should offer a case-specific basis for the alternative rate and risk adjustment.

“the Creditor offers no specific argument why a different market base rate or a different risk adjustment should be employed.”

Procedural preferences

Professional-retention terms must separate reasonable compensation from reimbursement of actual and necessary expenses.

“the fees proposed in the Proposed Contract are not reasonable compensation for the services to be rendered.”

Signed rulings

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

In re Adam Glenn Trawick
24-51904 · 2025-08-26
Application to employ auctioneer (Chapter 7 trustee) Denied

“The Court will enter a separate order, consistent with this Memorandum Decision, denying the Application without prejudice.”

Corzin v. Emergency Medical Transport, Inc. (In re Myers)
· 2018-09-28
Defendant motion for summary judgment (Emergency Medical Transport, Inc.) Granted

“The Court will enter a separate form of judgment granting the Motion for Summary Judgment consistent with this Memorandum Decision.”

In re Clark
· 2019-04-19
Trustee objection to claim of exemption (Chapter 7 trustee) Denied

“In light of the foregoing, the Trustee's Amended Objection to Debtor's Claim of Exemption will be overruled.”

Miraglia v. U.S. Department of Education (In re Miraglia)
· 2016-10-06
Defendant motion for summary judgment (United States Department of Education) Granted

“The Court will enter a separate form of judgment granting summary judgment in favor of the Defendant consistent with this Memorandum Decision.”

In re Kemmery
· 2014-09-17
Creditor objection to chapter 13 plan confirmation (Auto Loan, Inc.) Denied

“The Creditor’s Objection to Confirmation of Plan [docket # 15] is overruled and the Debtor’s Objection to Claim [docket # 26] is sustained.”

Debtor objection to claim (Debtor) Granted
McClafferty v. DeWine (In re McClafferty)
· 2017-04-14
Motions to dismiss (Michael DeWine and Rebecca Schlag) Granted in part

“For the reasons set forth above, the Rooker-Feldman doctrine does not apply to the state court’s finding that the automatic stay did not apply and, therefore, the Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction pursuant to Civil Rule 12(b)(1) must be denied. However, the Court concludes on the merits that the Defendants have thus far only taken actions that are excepted from the automatic stay by operation of 11 U.S.C. § 362(b)(4), and that exception to the automatic stay further allows the Defendants to proceed to fix the value of the damages owed for the conduct of the Debt- or and his company in that proceeding. While it might have been advisable to come to this Court first to confirm the exception from the automatic stay before proceeding, the Defendants were not obligated to do so. Furthermore, to the extent that the default judgment is nonmonetary, it may be enforced notwithstanding the automatic stay against both the Debtor and his company; to the extent that it is monetary, it may not be enforced against the Debtor personally. Because there was no violation of the automatic stay at all, there was no willful violation giving rise to a claim for damages pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 362(k). Therefore, the Motion to Dismiss for failure to state a *278claim pursuant to Civil Rule 12(b)(6) will be granted.”

In re Jeffers
· 2017-06-30
Motion for relief from automatic stay (Lisa Jeffers) Granted

“In light of the foregoing, the Court will enter a separate order consistent with this Memorandum Decision granting the Motion for Relief from Stay (Docket No. 79).”

Belfance v. Shelton (In re Shelton)
· 2018-10-17
Trustee motion for summary judgment (Chapter 7 trustee) Denied

“For these reasons, the Trustee's Motion for Summary Judgment will be denied, and the Defendant's Motions for Summary Judgment will be granted.”

Defendant motion for summary judgment (Annie Bell Tolbert Shelton) Granted
Reed v. Zwick (In re Reed)
· 2016-09-30
Motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction (Navient Solutions, Inc.) Denied

“The Court will enter a separate order denying Navient’s Motion to Dismiss con-sistent with this Memorandum Decision.”

Gertz v. Warner (In re Warner)
· 2017-04-14
United states motion for partial summary judgment (United States) Granted

“The Court will enter a separate form of judgment granting the United States’ motion for partial summary judgment and denying the Trustee’s motion for summary judgment.”

Trustee motion for summary judgment (Chapter 7 trustee) Denied
Corzin v. Lawson (In re Lawson)
· 2017-03-31
United states motion for partial summary judgment (United States) Granted

“The Court will enter a separate form of judgment granting summary judgment in favor of the United States and the Debtor consistent with this Memorandum Decision, granting their respective motions for summary judgment, and denying the Trustee’s Motion.”

Debtor motion for summary judgment (Carla M. Lawson) Granted
Trustee motion for summary judgment (Chapter 7 trustee) Denied
In re FirstEnergy Solutions Corp.
· 2018-09-18

The court withheld a final order while allowing revision of a proposed employee-retention plan, so the interim memorandum is excluded from motion statistics.

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

Five sampled matters were recorded as terminated. The opinion-linked matter had no termination date in the docket metadata, although its retained entries include a September 2025 case-closing event, and it supplied one grounded motion outcome.

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