Sarah A. Hall
How Judge Hall rules, drawn from 27 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
About Judge Hall
Sarah A. Hall has served as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma since January 7, 2015. She is the court’s chief judge and sits in Oklahoma City.
Judge Hall's practices and standing orders
The court's website lists no individual practices or standing orders of Judge Hall's own (checked October 11, 2026), so the court's local rules and general orders are the place to look (court page ↗).
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 11, 2026).
- General Order 26-04: Voluminous Documents ↗
- General Order 26-03: Chapter 13 Guidelines ↗
- General Order 26-02: Guidelines for Electronic Case Filing ↗
- General Order 25-05: Subchapter V Policies and Procedures ↗
- General Order 24-05: Procedures in Chapter 12 Cases ↗
- General Order 24-02: Attorney Representation of Chapter 7 Debtors ↗
- General Order 23-01: Pleadings Using Generative Artificial Intelligence ↗
How Judge Hall decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
The court required the complaint itself to plead the facts supporting fiduciary status rather than relying on new allegations supplied only in opposition briefing.
“a plaintiff cannot amend a complaint by adding factual allegations in its response to a motion to dismiss”
Procedural preferences
The court expects a party invoking issue preclusion to supply the full state-court judgment record needed to identify what was actually decided.
“Plaintiffs did not provide the judgment roll as required by Oklahoma law governing issue preclusion.”
Cautions
Boilerplate discovery objections and delayed supplementation risk waiver and an order compelling complete responses.
“all counsel are cautioned to understand and fully embrace their obligations to timely provide, in the first instance, meaningful, thoughtful and complete discovery responses and objections.”
A readily accessible appeal deadline was enforced despite counsel's misunderstanding of when the clock began to run.
“Even a cursory reading of Rule 8002(a)(1) would have prevented this error”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Ward's Motion to Dismiss for failure to state a claim is GRANTED with respect to Bank's claim of nondischargeability of debts pursuant to Section 523(a)(4), but with leave to amend the Complaint within twenty (20) days of the date this Order is entered, and DENIED in all other respects.”
“Therefore, Debtor’s request to reopen is hereby GRANTED. Debtor’s request to extend time to file his financial management course certificate is hereby DENIED without prejudice to refiling a motion to extend time to file a financial management course certificate that addresses the factors laid out above.”
“no purpose will be served by reopening the bankruptcy case. Therefore, cause does not exist to reopen the bankruptcy case and the Motion is denied.”
“Accordingly, the Motion is DENIED with respect to the Phipps Declaration and GRANTED with respect to the Potter Declaration.”
“Accordingly, the Motion is DENIED.”
“For the reasons set forth above, the Motion is DENIED as to Trustee’s Section 727(a)(6) and (d)(3) claim and GRANTED with respect to Trustee’s request for a money judgment in the amount of $12,191.85, together with the costs of this action in the amount of $350.00.”
“For the reasons stated above, Sisson’s Motion is DENIED.”
“Accordingly, the Motion is DENIED.”
“For the reasons set forth above, the Motion is denied.”
“The Motion is DENIED. However, within fourteen (14) days of the entry of this Order, Plaintiffs shall file an amended Complaint”
“For the reasons set forth above, the Motion is GRANTED. Plaintiff is granted twenty- one (21) days after entry of this Order to file an amended complaint.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
All six sampled matters were terminated. Ward supplied one express contested outcome; the five fixed streams supplied no express retained outcome.
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