Peter C. McKittrick

How Judge McKittrick rules, drawn from 5 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Court
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon
Position
bankruptcy
Commissioned
2015-01-12
Signed orders read
5

How Judge McKittrick decides

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

What persuades

The court applied an unambiguous statutory plan-duration limit even though it recognized the debtors' equitable argument.

“the court must refrain from disregarding an unambiguous statute for the purpose of accomplishing equity in a particular case”

Signed rulings

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

In re Bighill
25-61011-pcm13 · 2025-11-07
Objection to plan confirmation (the Chapter 13 trustee) Denied

“The court finds that the debtors have met their burden for confirmation of their plan under § 1325(a) and will overrule the Trustee's objection and confirm the debtors' plan.”

Chapter 13 plan confirmation (Joshua Paul Bighill and Kathryn Joanne Bighill) Granted
In re Cassalery
19-31913-pcm13 · 2024-10-21
Motion to approve modified plan (William C. Cassalery and Barbara L. Russell-Cassalery) Denied

“For the reasons stated above, the court will prepare and enter an order denying approval of the Fourth Amended Plan.”

United States Trustee v. Bray (In re Nelson)
23-3065-pcm · 2024-03-29
Default judgment (United States Trustee) Granted

“For the reasons stated above, the court will enter a judgment in favor of the UST.”

Motion for injunction (United States Trustee) Granted

“The Defendants are also permanently enjoined from acting as bankruptcy petition preparers in the District of Oregon.”

In re Tracy Lampron Cloud
23-32824-pcm7 · 2024-03-29
Motion to dismiss bankruptcy case (Galen Munger) Granted

“For the reasons stated above, the court will prepare and enter an order granting the motion to dismiss.”

In re Uzcanga-Ramirez
22-31705-pcm7 · 2023-05-09
Motion to reopen (the debtor) Denied

“For the reasons stated above, the court will enter an order denying Debtor’s motion to reopen the case.”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

Four sampled matters were terminated and two remained pending. Four streams supplied 18 express outcomes; two contained no separate classifiable ruling.

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