Peggy Hunt
How Judge Hunt rules, drawn from 2 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
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
A stay-relief filing ordinarily will not substitute for a proof of claim unless it demands payment from the estate and demonstrates an intent to hold the debtor liable 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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