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Bankruptcy Judge's Resignation Forces Reassignment of 3,500 Cases

Posted by: Paul Burch on Oct 19, 2023

A federal court in Houston, Texas is moving quickly to reassign nearly 3,500 bankruptcy cases to two judges after the sudden resignation of U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones, reports Reuters. Jones resigned Sunday shortly after a federal appeals court opened an ethics probe into his failure to disclose a long-term romantic relationship with an attorney whose firm had cases before his court. Jones has handled more corporate bankruptcies in recent years than any other bankruptcy judge and overseen 17% of cases with more than $1 billion in liabilities since 2020, according to data from Debtwire. At a court hearing last week, Jones said he had more than 1,100 commercial cases on his docket.