Peggy Hunt
How Judge Hunt rules, drawn from 2 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
About Judge Hunt
Peggy Hunt joined the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Utah in March 2023 and serves as its chief judge. Before joining the bench, she was co-managing shareholder of Greenberg Traurig’s Salt Lake City office.
Judge Hunt's practices and standing orders
Rules for cases before Judge Hunt, as published on the court's website (checked October 11, 2026). Judges revise these often, so confirm the current version on the court's site before you file.
Key rules
Filing
Do not attach proposed orders to motions, applications, or objections.
“Proposed orders are not to be attached to motions / applications or objections.”
Conferences
For Hunt’s preliminary hearings, use detailed offers of proof; live witnesses are not heard at that stage.
“At this preliminary hearing, detailed offers of proof should be used but no live witnesses.”
Conferences
Request a hearing longer than five minutes on another day rather than the law and motion calendar.
“Parties should not request time on the law and motion calendar if they believe that a hearing will take more than five minutes. Instead, parties should schedule a lengthier hearing on another day.”
Conferences
Unless the court approves it at least two days ahead, Hunt does not permit telephone appearances.
“Absent obtaining approval from the Court at least two (2) days prior to the hearing, the Court is currently not permitting telephonic appearances.”
Conferences
For a Zoom hearing, sign in ten minutes early for the courtroom deputy’s check-in.
“Counsel and any persons appearing with counsel should sign into the Zoom hearing ten (10) minutes prior to the hearing.”
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 11, 2026).
How Judge Hunt decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
For the Chapter 13 best-interests test, Hunt permits a trustee to account for a potentially avoidable transfer in the hypothetical liquidation analysis without first recovering the property.
“It plainly operates in a hypothetical context and does not require a trustee to establish that property is recoverable.”
Procedural preferences
In In re Plaza 106, LLC, she denied a bank's request to treat its earlier stay-relief motion as an informal proof of claim. The filing did not serve as a timely claim for payment in the bankruptcy case.
“a motion for relief from stay rarely serves as a basis for an informal proof of claim”
Cautions
Work on another contested matter does not excuse missing a claims deadline.
“the press of other business is not a basis for finding excusable neglect.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The Claim Objection is SUSTAINED and the POC is DISALLOWED;”
“The Claim Allowance Motion is DENIED.”
“the Trustee’s objection to confirmation of his Plan under § 1325(a)(4) must be sustained.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
The ten terminated sampled matters ranged from 89 to 387 days. This small fixed sample includes both routine consumer cases and complex business cases and is descriptive only.
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