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Judge Timothy A. Barnes
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
03/28/2018 In re Talecia Gilliam

17 B 18368
Upon the application of the debtor’s counsel under the court’s flat fee agreement, wherein the debtor’s counsel filed a form chapter 13 plan with a modification to the priority distributions of creditors to elevate the priority of counsel’s payments, held:  The debtor’s...

02/13/2018 In re Anthony M. and Virginia J. Montemurro

17 B 10230
Upon the application of a state court-appointed receiver for allowance and payment of administrative expenses, held:  The receiver has established that, on the petition date, it was a custodian for the purposes of payment under 11 U.S.C. § 543(c)(2) and priority of payment...

12/22/2017 In re Stainless Sales Corporation

17 B 03148
Upon the application for administrative expense brought by a party to whom a prepetition assignee of the debtor’s assets for the benefit of creditors became obligated, held: while the movant is not entitled to seek reimbursement under the provision affording custodians...

12/21/2017 Walden Investments Group, LLC v. First Nations Bank, et al. (In re Anthony M. and Virginia J. Montemurro)

17 B 10230, 17 A 00401
Upon the motions of two adversary defendants to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a claim, held:  The complaint states a plausible claim for declaratory judgment of the plaintiff’s interest, as prepetition receiver of property of the estate, in such...

12/04/2017 In re Jennifer Robinson

17 B 12405
Upon a tax purchaser’s motion for relief from stay in a chapter 13 case, arguing that the expiration of the state-law period for redeeming taxes prior to the debtor filing for bankruptcy case gives cause to modify the stay, held: The tax purchaser has not established the...

Judge Janet S. Baer
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
03/22/2018 Jacob Thazhathuputhenpurac v. Thomas Abraham (Thomas Abraham)

13 B 09806, 13 A 00917
Jacob Thazhathuputhenpurac (the “Plaintiff”) filed an adversary complaint against former business partner Thomas Abraham (the “Debtor”), seeking a determination that a debt owed to him by the Debtor by virtue of a state court judgment was not dischargeable...

02/07/2018 Estate of Rose M. Drabik, Mary Elizabeth Smith, Mary Katherine Paul, and Brenda Porter Helms, not individually but as chapter 7 trustee for the bankruptcy estate of James T. Drabik v. James T. Drabik (James T. Drabik)

15 B 07325, 15 A 00866
Plaintiffs Estate of Rose M. Drabik, Mary Elizabeth Smith, Mary Katherine Paul, and chapter 7 trustee Brenda Porter Helms (collectively, the “Plaintiffs”) filed an adversary complaint against James T. Drabik (the “Debtor”), seeking a denial of the Debtor’s...

12/27/2017 In re Christopher V. Pratola

17 B 11668
The chapter 13 trustee filed a motion to dismiss the case of Christopher V. Pratola pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 1307(c).  The trustee asserted that there was cause for dismissal because Pratola owed educational debt of approximately $591,223 which exceeded the noncontingent,...

12/14/2017 Mark Simon v. Constantino Joseph Boccarsi and Cari Ann Coglianese (Constantino Joseph Boccarsi and Cari Ann Coglianese)

16 B 29319, 17 A 00176
Mark Simon filed an adversary complaint against Constantino Joseph Boccarsi and Cari Ann Coglianese (the “Debtors”), seeking a determination that a debt owed to him by the Debtors by virtue of the entry of a state court default judgment was not dischargeable...

Chief Judge Jacqueline P. Cox
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
03/12/2018 In re Frank A. Santilli and Monica D. Santilli; Preferred Capital Funding of Illinois, LLC. v Frank Santilli

16 B 14713 Consolidated with 16 B 23020, 16 A 00707
The court found several debts nondischargeable where the debtor, an attorney, lied about and failed to repay clients' loans from settlement proceeds.

12/18/2017 In re Lombard Public Facilities Corporation

17 B 22517
The movants sought dismissal of this Chapter 11 case for cause alleging that the Debtor is an instrumentality of the Village of Lombard, and as such is not allowed to seek bankruptcy relief as a governmental unit.  The Debtor was incorporated by Lombard to construct and...

09/20/2017 In re Demetrius Adger

17 B 20163
The issue was whether Debtor Adger's filing of a Chapter 13 case on July 5, 2017 at 6:26 p.m., rather than before 5 p.m. when the Cook County Clerk's office closed was filed timely  for purposes of allowing the debtor to treat a tax purchaser's claim over the life of a...

Judge Deborah L. Thorne
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
03/09/2018 Fayyaz Karim and Lisa Karim v. Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC (In re Fayyaz Karim and Lisa Karim)

17 B 06548,  17 A 00380

11/16/2017 Tyeane Halbert v. James T. Dimas, as Secretary of the IL Dept. of Human Services, et al (In re Tyeane Halbert)

16 A 00479, 16 B 13005

10/02/2017 In re Argon Credit, LLC, et al.

16 B 39654

Judge A. Benjamin Goldgar
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
02/16/2018 In re John Jake Klein

16 B 08738

02/12/2018 In re Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., Inc., et al.

15 B 1145

01/22/2018 In re James and Alicia Allegretti

17 B 17844

Judge Thomas M. Lynch
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
12/05/2017 In re Robert R. LaPorta

17 B 82300

09/29/2017 Better Hearing, LLC v. James E. Hovis (In re Hearing Help Express, Inc.)

14 B 82161, 16 A 96043

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