Kevin R. Huennekens
How Judge Huennekens rules, drawn from 20 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Huennekens no longer sits on this court. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled here.
About Judge Huennekens
Kevin R. Huennekens served as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia beginning in September 2006. He retired from the court in January 2025.
How Judge Huennekens decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Household size under the means test was tied to the debtor's real economic unit rather than a rigid external definition.
“‘Household’ must be based on the economic reality for a given debtor.”
Express contract language controlled whether exchange funds were held in trust.
“The plain, unambiguous language of the Exchange Agreements clearly establishes that it was not the intent of LES or Millard to create an express trust.”
Procedural preferences
Attorney misconduct was evaluated by its concrete disruption of the bankruptcy process and harm to the client.
“The Court finds that the resulting failures and actions impeded and disrupted the bankruptcy process and caused the Debtor harm.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the Court shall appoint a liquidating trustee for Treadegar to wind up its financial affairs and to administer the Interpled Funds in accordance with this Memorandum Opinion.”
“the Trustee’s Objection to the claimed exemption will be overruled.”
“the Court will order the Debtor to file an amended form B22C consistent with this memorandum opinion claiming a household of three.”
“the Court will deny the motion in part and grant the motion in part.”
“The LFG Trustee’s objection will be overruled and the Severance Claims will remain priority claims for each Claimant up to the amount capped by § 507(a)(4) of the Bankruptcy Code”
“the Panasonic Claim should be disallowed as an administrative claim and should be reclassified as a non-priority, general unsecured claim.”
“the Debtors’ Summary Judgment Motion will be granted.”
“§ 502(d) may be used to temporarily disallow the Claims filed under § 501(a) up to the amount of the alleged Preferential Transfers.”
“the Motion for Reconsideration will be denied.”
“the Debtors’ motion for partial summary judgment is GRANTED.”
“the Court will deny Millard's motion for partial summary judgment and grant partial summary judgment in favor of the Committees against Millard.”
“the Court sustained the Trustee’s Objection and disallowed the Debtor’s exemption of the unscheduled asset by Order entered February 18, 2009.”
“Trustee s Motion for Summary Judgment as to Count I is GRANTED”
“Prunty’s Motion for Summary Judgment as to Count II, Count III and Count IV is GRANTED”
“Trustee’s Motion for Summary Judgment as to Count V is GRANTED”
“Trustee’s Motion for Summary Judgment as to Count VI is DENIED”
“Prunty’s Motion for Summary Judgment as to Count I, Count V, and Count VI 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 Huennekens no longer sits on this court. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled here. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.