Brad W. Odell

How Judge Odell rules, drawn from 1 signed order. Every observation links to the order it came from.

Court
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas
Position
bankruptcy
Appointed by
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Commissioned
2025-04-10
Education
Texas Tech University School of Law, J.D., 2008; Texas Tech University Rawls College of Business, M.B.A., 2008
Signed orders read
1

How Judge Odell decides

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

What persuades

An objection to discharge requires evidence tying alleged valuation or recordkeeping failures to the statutory elements; unanswered suspicion about a large asset sale was insufficient without contradictory proof.

“The Rutans failed to introduce any evidence to dispute this assertion.”

Signed rulings

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

Rutan v. Johns
21-60010; 22-06000 · 2026-01-09
Objection to discharge (David Rutan and Michelle Rutan) Denied

“Therefore, the Court denies the Rutans’ objection to Johns’s discharge under § 727(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

Seven of the 20 returned matters had terminated by the review date. The grounded motion set comes from nine matters with explicit filing-and-ruling pairs.

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