District of Idaho (Pocatello)
Career Highlights: Appointed as a bankruptcy judge of the District of Idaho, 1990 and 2004; on recall status since 2018; chief bankruptcy judge, District of Idaho, 1993-2004; 9th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, 2005-15; chief judge, Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, 2010-13; private practice, 1977-90.
Career Highlights: Appointed as a bankruptcy judge of the District of Idaho, 1990 and 2004; on recall status since 2018; chief bankruptcy judge, District of Idaho, 1993-2004; 9th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, 2005-15; chief judge, Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, 2010-13; private practice, 1977-90.
One of District of Idaho Bankruptcy Judge Jim D. Pappas’ most well-known decisions is a 2013 concurrence he wrote while serving as chief judge of the 9th Circuit’s Bankruptcy Appellate Panel in which he advocated for a more lenient standard in discharging student loan debt, calling the “undue hardship” test a “relic of times long gone.”
One of his most entertaining decisions is about a horse named Mittens.
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