In re: Lu Ann Ratzlaff Craig

Filing 20

ORDER. This case is REMITTED to the Clerk for immediate random assignment to a merits judge under D.C.COLO.LCiv.R 40.1. The parties are reminded that the case remains an administrative appeal under the Courts Local Appellate (LAP) Rules and that briefing and other pre-merits procedures remain governed by the LAP Rules and the operative Joint Case Management Plan. Entered by Judge John L. Kane on 07/31/15. (jhawk, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO
Judge John L. Kane
Civil Action No. 15-cv-00674-AP
Bankruptcy Case No. 14-14536-SBB
Adversary Case No. 15-01507-SBB
In Re: LU ANN RATZLAFF CRAIG,
Debtor.
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DOUGLAS E. LARSON, Chapter 7 Trustee,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
SWIFT ROCK FINANCIAL, INC.,
ORION PROCESSING, LLC,
Defendants,
GLOBAL CLIENT SOLUTIONS, LLC,
Defendant-Appellant.
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ORDER
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KANE, J.
Under the Court’s local rules of practice, D.C.COLO.LAPR 1.1. et seq., the AP

judge manages an administrative appeal through briefing, after which it is returned to the
Clerk’s Office to be drawn to a judge like any other civil case under D.C.COLO.LCiv.R
40.1. See Untangling Federal Administrative Appeals Practice in the District of Colorado,

42 Colo. Law. 31 (March 2013).1 I find the issues raised in Appellant’s Motion to Stay
Bankruptcy Adversary Proceeding (Doc. 15) to be sufficiently intertwined with the merits
of the underlying controversy to suggest the AP judge refrain from resolving them to
avoid binding the merits judge to a ruling which he or she may view differently.
For the foregoing reasons, this case is REMITTED to the Clerk for immediate
random assignment to a merits judge under D.C.COLO.LCiv.R 40.1. The parties are
reminded that the case remains an administrative appeal under the Court’s Local
Appellate (LAP) Rules and that briefing and other pre-merits procedures remain governed
by the LAP Rules and the operative Joint Case Management Plan.

Dated: July 31, 2015.
s/John L. Kane
SENIOR U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE

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Available on the Court’s website at
http://www.cod.uscourts.gov/Portals/0/Documents/Judges/JLK/jlk_CH-KR-AP-docket-article-0
3-2013-Colo-Lawyer.pdf.
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