Elizabeth L. Perris
How Judge Perris rules, drawn from 32 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Perris no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Perris decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Credibility and documentary consistency mattered when a claimant bore the burden of proving that a debt belonged to the bankruptcy estate.
“There is just no way to know which version of the facts is true. This is the essence of a failure of proof.”
Procedural preferences
Exemption rights were fixed at filing and were not undone by a later conversion of exempt property into sale proceeds.
“The post-petition conversion of her homestead into proceeds has no effect on the exemption.”
Cautions
A reaffirmation could not revive a time-barred unsecured claim once the statutory deadline passed without a complaint.
“the statutory reaffirmation scheme is to be strongly construed so as to protect the interests of debtors.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Defendants are entitled to summary judgment as to all of the payments included in the complaint except for the one payment of $101,486.07”
“Odess’s objection to confirmation of debtor’s plan is overruled.”
“The trustee’s objection to the claim of exemption is sustained.”
“I will grant the motion for relief from stay to allow the IRS to offset its claim for tax penalties against the refund owed to Debtor’s estate.”
“Therefore, the trustee’s objection will be overruled.”
“I will therefore grant the Motion to Dismiss, subject to debtor's right to convert her case to a case under a different chapter within 14 days”
After trial, the debtor failed to avoid the pawn forfeiture because the rings' value was reasonably equivalent to the redemption amount.
“I conclude that the objection is well taken, and will disallow the claim.”
“The trustee’s objection to the exemption claimed under ORS 23.160(l)(h) is therefore sustained.”
“The motions of the claimants who seek only compensatory damages (or who agree to limit their damages claim to compensatory damages) for relief from stay and for remand will be granted.”
“The motions of the claimants who also seek, or wish to amend to add, punitive damages will be denied with the following limited exception. Relief from stay will be granted”
“The motions of the claimants who also seek, or wish to amend to add, punitive damages will be denied with the following limited exception.”
“I will deny debtors’ motion.”
“Debtors’ plan as proposed will be confirmed.”
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 result.
A historical record
Judge Perris 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.