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National rollout of the system started in bankruptcy courts in 2001, 2002 in district courts, and in 2004 in appellate courts. CM/ECF is not used in state courts, but several states have moved toward implementation of comparable systems for at least some cases. [2] As of January 2012, there were "some two hundred" courts running CM/ECF. [3]
The Southern District of Texas started with one judge, Waller T. Burns, and a Clerk of Court, Christopher Dart, seated in Galveston. Since that time, the court has grown to nineteen district judgeships, six bankruptcy judgeships, fourteen magistrate judgeships, and over 200 deputy clerks.
In 1906, President Roosevelt named Lodowick “Lock” McDaniel of Grimes County, Texas, to be the first man appointed as the United States Attorney for the SDTX. Originally, the SDTX covered 36 counties. The court and the U.S. Attorney rotated between Galveston, Laredo, Brownsville and Houston which was a new seat for the court.
The American Bar Association also lists lawyers who meet their standards in different areas of expertise, including bankruptcy. Your state bar might similarly provide references for local specialists.
The district judge serving the District of Ohio, Humphrey H. Leavitt, was reassigned to the Southern District of Ohio. On July 23, 1866, by 14 Stat. 209, Congress reorganized the circuits and assigned Ohio to the Sixth Circuit. [3] Additional judgeships were created in 1910, 1937, 1966, 1970, 1978, 1984, and 1990. [3]
Red Lobster is looking to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to restructure its debts after attempting a promotion that sank the seafood restaurant chain's bottom line, according to Bloomberg.
This is a list of Supreme Court of the United States cases in the area of bankruptcy. This list is a list solely of United States Supreme Court decisions about applying law related to bankruptcy. Not all Supreme Court decisions are ultimately influential and, as in other fields, not all important decisions are made at the Supreme Court level.