Assignment of Cases

(a) Assignment of Cases. Cases are assigned to judges by random selection to the extent possible. The Chief Judge may direct the Clerk to reassign cases as necessary. (b) Related Cases.

A case related to another pending case may be assigned or reassigned to the judge with the earliest filed case. A case is “related” to another case if one of the debtors in one case is an “affiliate” or an “insider” of a debtor in another case, as those terms are defined in 11 U.S.C. § 101. (c) Repeat Cases. If the debtor has filed a bankruptcy case in the previous eight years, the Clerk may reassign the case to the judge to whom the previous bankruptcy case was assigned.

4 L.B.R. 2002-1. Notice to Creditors and Other Interested Parties (a) Who Must Give Notice. Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, the movant or applicant must provide notice as required by Fed. R. Bankr. P. 2002 and L.B.R. 9013-1. (b) Creditor Address Mailing Matrix.

For notice to all creditors and parties in interest, the movant must use, at a minimum, all of the addresses contained on the most current version of the Creditor Address Mailing Matrix. (c) Designation of Preferred Creditor Addresses. The Court designates any entity approved by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts as a notice provider to support the preferred address requirements under 11 U.S.C. § 342(f) and Fed. R. Bankr. P. 2002(g)(4).