17 B 36587, 17 A 00594
The Debtors took out a $2,200,000 loan from America's Wholesale Lender in 2006 to purchase real estate.  They executed both a note and a mortgage in connection therewith.  They failed to make payments starting in 2008.  The lender filed a mortgage foreclosure case against them in 2009 in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.  In October, 2017 the state court entered a judgment of foreclosure in that case, ruling in favor of the lender on its motion for summary judgment, rejecting the Debtors' claim that because America's Wholesale Lender had not been incorporated before the documents were executed, the note and mortgage were null and void. The Debtors filed this chapter 11 bankruptcy case 7 weeks later on December 11, 2017.

The Debtors filed this adversary proceeding seeking to have the note and mortgage declared invalid for the same reasons asserted without success in state court.

The Lender filed a Motion to Dismiss the Adversary Proceeding which this court has granted with prejudice, applying the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and the court's authority to abstain as explained by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in In re Jepson, 816 F.3d 942 , 948 (2016).

15BK01035
In a successive Chapter 13 case where repeat filers failed to timely obtain an extension of the automatic stay, the court concludes that the stay terminated in its entirety on the 30th day after filing, pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 362(c)(3).

15 B 1145

16-82572, 16-96071
Summary judgment granted in favor of the Chapter 7 Trustee in action to avoid pre-petition transfer of commercial property pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§ 544(b), 550(a), and 740 Ill. Comp. Stat. 160/1, et seq.

16 B 28526, 16 A 00624
Plaintiff Old Republic National Title Insurance Company (“Old Republic”) filed an adversary complaint against debtor Fares Fakhuri (“Fakhuri”), seeking a determination that a debt owed to it by Fakhuri by virtue of a state court judgment was not dischargeable pursuant to §§ 523(a)(2)(A) and (a)(2)(B).  Old Republic subsequently filed a motion for summary judgment on both counts of its complaint.  No material facts were in dispute.  Old Republic contended that the state court made findings that Fakhuri committed fraud and that Fakhuri falsely represented that the title to his property was clear, while concealing the fact that there was a lien on the property.  Fakhuri failed to contest these arguments.  The Court found that the state court’s default judgment was not preclusive as it made no findings of fact, but that Old Republic established that Fakhuri made false representations in connection with the title to the property within the meaning of § 523(a)(2)(A).  As §§ 523(a)(2)(A) and (a)(2)(B) are mutually exclusive causes of action, judgment could not also be granted as to § 523(a)(2)(B).  Accordingly, the Court granted Old Republic’s motion as to the § 523(a)(2)(A) count, entered judgment on that count in its favor, and dismissed the § 523(a)(2)(B) count.