Many years ago, well before the implementation of ECF filings, the Bench-Bar Liaison Committee generated a survey of the Northern District Bankruptcy Judges. The questions focused on various practice procedures utilized by the judges and the questions and responses were printed out in a black notebook. The following is an effort to update and replace the old notebook. We have surveyed the judges in response to a series of questions divided up into different topics. Each judge's responses to the survey are posted below and these documents are maintained by the Bench Bar Liaison Committee.
I have the privilege of continuing Judge Randall Newsome and Judge Charles Novack's research binder. Although this represents the aggregation of their 38 years of research, I make no claim as to its current level of accuracy. Some of the cases may well have been superseded, reversed or otherwise no longer be good law. I, like Judge Newsome and Judge Novack, post it with the intention of assisting those who are researching bankruptcy matters within the 9th Circuit. Users should consider it a first, but not final research tool, and should cite check all cases before relying on them.
