Douglas O. Tice Jr.
How Judge Tice rules, drawn from 20 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Tice no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Tice decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Accurate use of a registered debtor's legal name controlled lien perfection, without rescuing a filing through a generalized diligent-searcher theory.
“Little more is asked of a creditor than to accurately record the debtor’s name, and according to the statute, failure to perform this action clearly dooms the perfected status of a security interest.”
A trustee could reach claimed exemptions when concealment and noncooperation imposed losses on the estate.
“Allowing the trustee to surcharge their statutory exemptions in this case is, as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held in Latman ‘reasonably necessary both to protect the integrity of the bankruptcy process and to ensure that [Debtors] exempt an amount no greater than what is permitted by the exemption scheme of the Bankruptcy Code.’”
Procedural preferences
Internal agency guidance was not applied selectively when the official bankruptcy form incorporated only the published expense figures.
“Either the guidance documents apply in total or they do not apply at all.”
Cautions
Repeated inaccurate schedules and sham obligations supported denial of discharge when they formed a knowing pattern rather than an isolated mistake.
“This pattern demonstrates that debtor’s false representations in her schedules were made knowingly and fraudulently.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The court finds that the provisions of § 727(a)(2) and (a)(3) do not apply to bar Ferris’s discharge in bankruptcy.”
“The court further finds that $495,825.00, the debt owed Crockett from Ferris, is nondis-chargeable pursuant to § 523(a)(2)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code.”
“IT IS ORDERED that the trustee’s motion to disgorge is DENIED.”
“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Hir-schler Fleischer is directed to submit an order allowing it to withdraw the balance of its retainer against the fee approved by the court on September 8, 2010.”
“Trial was held on May 29, 2008, at which time the court granted Nancy Bilter’s motion for summary judgment, dismissing the claims against her for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.”
“The court also denied debtor’s motion for summary judgment because there still remained questions of material fact.”
“The court previously ruled that no punitive damages would be awarded, and plaintiff has not argued for punitive damages in her post-trial brief.”
“The court then ruled from the bench that plaintiffs request for punitive damages would be denied and that the § 523(a)(6) count of the complaint (willful and malicious injury) would be dismissed.”
“The judgment award against Frederick Jr. will be excepted from discharge pursuant to Bankruptcy Code § 523(a)(4).”
“Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED THAT THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER JUDGMENT ORDER IS DENIED.”
“For reasons stated in this opinion, the court will grant defendants’ joint motion to dismiss the complaint. The court defers ruling on the other motions.”
“ORDERED that the motion is GRANTED”
“Based on the above, the court will enter an order avoiding debtor’s transfers to defendant of (1) 7424 Secretariat Drive, Mid-lothian, Virginia, and (2) the sale proceeds of $28,000.00.”
“For the above reasons, the objections to confirmation filed by each creditor are sustained in part, and the plan in each case must be modified to allow the secured and unsecured claims listed in Part III.D. above.”
“IT IS ORDERED that the trustee’s objection to confirmation is OVERRULED.”
“For reasons stated in this opinion, the court grants the motions to reconsider and will vacate the order of December 21 and retroactively grant relief from the codebtor stay.”
“An order will be entered denying the motions to reconsider.”
“IT IS ORDERED that debtor’s motion to reopen her case is GRANTED”
“Although the above statutory grounds do not support debtor’s motion for a permanent waiver of the credit counseling requirement, given debtor’s current circumstance, the court will allow him to proceed under § 109(h)(3).”
“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that upon completion of credit counseling, debt- or shall attend, telephonically, a new § 341 meeting of creditors”
“For the foregoing reasons, the debtor's request for a discharge of her student loans based on undue hardship is denied.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
All ten sampled matters were terminated, and every retained entry stream was empty.
A historical record
Judge Tice no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.