Thomas M. Weaver
How Judge Weaver rules, drawn from 7 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Weaver no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Weaver decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
A debtor's inability to propose a feasible plan, combined with ongoing losses and speculative litigation recoveries, supported conversion to liquidation.
“For the reasons stated above, this case should be converted to Chapter 7.”
Procedural preferences
Fee review focused on whether counsel reduced recorded time to the hours reasonably required.
“Billing judgment consists of winnowing the hours actually expended down to the hours reasonably expended.”
Cautions
A default judgment did not establish issue preclusion where the dischargeability questions had not actually been litigated.
“In this case, the judgment entered against the debtor and Traci followed their default. Consequently, the issues purporting to relate to issues of nondischargeability in this case were not actually litigated.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Thus, the creditors’ motion to convert the case to Chapter 7 is granted”
“The conversion of this case to Chapter 7 renders moot the creditors’ motion for the appointment of a Chapter 11 trustee.”
“Debtor’s motion to extend the exclusive period within which to file a plan is also denied as moot.”
“ACCORDINGLY, IT IS ORDERED that Debtors’ motion to avoid lien should be and hereby is GRANTED.”
Contextual exclusion: the student-loan discharge dispute was decided after trial rather than on a classified motion.
Contextual exclusion: the administrative-claim and counterclaim dispute was decided after trial rather than on a classified motion.
Contextual exclusion: the student-loan discharge dispute was decided after trial rather than on a classified motion.
Contextual exclusion: the hospital's nondischargeability claims were decided after trial rather than on a classified motion.
“Total fees and expense reimbursement $1,865,459.42 and the court hereby awards such fees and expense reimbursement to D & L.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The median reflects case-level filing and termination dates only; the sampled matters contained no archived motion entries.
A historical record
Judge Weaver no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.