Brad W. Odell
How Judge Odell rules, drawn from 7 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
About Judge Odell
Brad W. Odell is a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Texas. Appointed in April 2025, he previously practiced financial restructuring and commercial litigation at Mullin Hoard & Brown.
Judge Odell's practices and standing orders
Rules for cases before Judge Odell, as published on the court's website (checked October 10, 2026). Judges revise these often, so confirm the current version on the court's site before you file.
Key rules
Filing
Serve a self-calendared setting on the same day it is obtained from Judge Odell’s website calendar.
“The setting information must be served the same day it is obtained from the website.”
Filing
File hearing papers no later than one day after service and place the hearing date and time on the pleading.
“No later than one day after service, counsel shall file all appropriate papers with the court with the hearing date and time on the face of the pleading.”
Discovery
Judge Odell permits self-calendaring of discovery motions in adversary cases.
“Discovery Motions in adversary cases”
Conferences
For matters expected to take more than two hours, notify Judge Odell’s courtroom deputy at least three business days before docket call.
“If you anticipate that your matter will take more than two hours to hear, please advise the Courtroom Deputy to Judge Odell at [email protected] or 806-472-5006 of such at least three business days prior to the docket call.”
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 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.
“Therefore, the Court denies the Rutans’ objection to Johns’s discharge under § 727(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.”
“IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED that the Stay Motion is DENIED.”
“ORDERED that Debtor’s objection to Creditors’ Claim is OVERRULED.”
“The Court denies the Rule 60 Motion and does not admit Highland Capital’s Exhibit 300.”
“the Court grants in part and denies in part the Motion to Dismiss.”
After trial on a contested claim and counterclaim, the court disallowed Daugherty's reserved claim and rejected his breach-of-contract and specific-performance counterclaim. This trial decision is retained outside motion statistics.
“The Court grants in part and denies in part Highland’s Motions to Strike.”
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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