Chapter 11
15 locations
Reorganization and sale of Twisted Root Burger Co. and Truck Yard for the founder, location by location.
2020–21
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The Dallas bankruptcy court, from the inside of a Chapter 11.
The Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas hears cases for Dallas, Fort Worth and the rest of North and West Texas. We have carried Chapter 11 cases through it for debtors and handled the litigation that happens inside them.
What we handle
- Chapter 11 reorganizations and sales
- Relief from the automatic stay
- Assuming or rejecting leases and contracts
- Dismissal and conversion
- Claims objections and adversary proceedings
- Creditors’ rights in a debtor’s case
How we approach it
We carried the Chapter 11 reorganization and sale of Twisted Root Burger Co. and Truck Yard through this court for the founder (Fruition Restaurants, No. 20-31993), location by location, with the landlord and lease matters throughout.
See consensual Chapter 11 dismissal, relief from the automatic stay, assuming an unexpired lease and the district court. N.D. Tex. bankruptcy · E.D. Tex. bankruptcy · W.D. Tex. bankruptcy · S.D. Tex. bankruptcy.
The court’s rules on AI
Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Tex. General Order 2023-03 requires checking any AI-generated language against print reporters, traditional legal databases or other reliable means, under Rule 9011. The district’s civil rules do not apply in this court (LBR 9029-3(a)), so the Local Rule 7.2(f) disclosure does not either.
No Texas bankruptcy judge has an AI order of their own. On appeal to the district court, the district’s rules and the assigned judge’s orders apply.
Checked against each court’s own rules and orders on 5 November 2026 for John Henry’s talk “AI in Modern Litigation” at the Eastern District of Texas Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference. Rules change; the full reference, with every order cited, is on the AI in litigation page.
Related results
Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not predict a similar outcome. Confidential matters are described without their terms.
Questions people ask
Which bankruptcy court does a Dallas or Fort Worth business file in?
The Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas. A Collin or Denton County business files in the Eastern District.
Does the N.D. Tex. district court’s AI disclosure rule apply in the bankruptcy court?
No. The bankruptcy court’s local rules say the district’s civil rules do not apply there, so Local Rule 7.2(f) does not either. The bankruptcy court’s own General Order 2023-03 does.
Where does an appeal from the Dallas bankruptcy court go?
To the district court or, in some cases, directly to the Fifth Circuit.