Teresa H. Pearson
How Judge Pearson rules, drawn from 10 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
About Judge Pearson
Teresa H. Pearson has served as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Oregon since October 2021. Her court handles bankruptcy cases and related adversary proceedings in Oregon.
Judge Pearson's practices and standing orders
The court's website lists no individual practices or standing orders of Judge Pearson's own (checked October 10, 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 10, 2026).
How Judge Pearson decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In Cotton, Pearson sustained the trustee’s exemption objection after finding that the cited crime-victim reparation exemption covered economic damages, while the debtor’s settlement expressly awarded noneconomic damages.
“for an award under a crime victim reparation act is limited to awards of economic damages.”
Procedural preferences
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Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The Court Will Enter a Default Judgment for a Mandatory Injunction and Specific Performance.”
“Because this court does not have authority to appoint a receiver in this adversary proceeding, the court will not sign the proposed form of judgment submitted by the plaintiff trustee.”
“ORDERED that the Motion to Alter or Amend is denied.”
“For the reasons set forth above, the court will sustain the trustee’s objection to Mr. Leavell’s claims of exemption”
“this court will deny plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and grant defendants’ cross-motions for summary judgment.”
“For the reasons set forth above, the court cannot authorize debtor’s payment of Keicher as a critical vendor.”
The court held that voluntary retirement-account withdrawals could constitute sufficiently regular income for Chapter 13 eligibility on the stated facts.
“the court grants and denies each of the motions in part.”
“the court will allow some, but not all, of the requested compensation to Pacific Coast.”
“For the reasons set forth above, the court concludes that the debtor cannot claim an exemption for the proceeds of the settlement under ORS 18.345(1)(j). The court will enter an order sustaining the trustee’s objection. The order will be without prejudice to the debtor amending her exemptions to claim any other appropriate exemption in the settlement proceeds.”
After trial, Pearson concluded that the agency’s civil penalties were excepted from discharge and its regulatory licensing actions did not violate the discharge injunction. The decision directed judgment for the agency but did not resolve a party motion.
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
One sampled adversary proceeding was terminated; the four individual cases and the RODA Chapter 11 case remained pending in the index.
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