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Chief Judge Jacqueline P. Cox
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
09/13/2017 Christine F. Hernandez v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage

09 B 49112, 17 A 00280
The Debtor sued Wells Fargo Home Mortgage alleging that it violated the discharge injunction when it sent her three informational letters concerning its lien. The court found that the creditor did no more than what Bankruptcy Code Section 524(j) allows...

08/02/2017 In re Erin V. McDougal; Tim Grover and Katherine Grover v. Erin V. McDougal

16 B 8776, 16 A 00356
Debtor Erin V. McDougal defaulted on rent payments under an apartment lease.  Her lessor asked that the debt owed be found to be non-dischargeable due to representations made by the Debtor alleged to be false. During the period the representations were being made...

04/25/2017 In re EHC, LCC

15 B 40866
In this ruling the court sanctioned an attorney pursuant to Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 9011 for pursuing a bankruptcy case solely to delay a foreclosure case, to avoid the lawful appointment of a receiver and to needlessly increase a secured creditor's legal fees...

Judge Deborah L. Thorne
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
09/13/2017 Trinity 83 Development, LLC v. ColFin Midwest Funding, LLC (In re Trinity 83 Development, LLC)

17 A 00286, 16 B 24652

07/06/2017 In re Argon Credit, LLC, et al.

16 B 39654

04/13/2017 N. Neville Reid, Trustee v. Michael Wolf, et al. (In re Michael A. Wolf)

14 B 27066, 16 A 00066

Judge Timothy A. Barnes
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
09/08/2017 Barry A. Chatz, not individually but as the Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of Gurrie C. Rhoads, v. Alice Rhoads Living Trust Dated June 1, 2012 and Alice Rhoads (In re Gurrie Rhoads)

15 A 00819, 14 B 17886
Upon the chapter 7 trustee’s complaint under 11 U.S.C. § 363(h) seeking to sell all interests in real property held in a living trust in which the estate also has an interest, held: The trustee has established each element of section 363(h) to sell the real...

08/10/2017 In re Trina D. Whitlock-Young

17 B 05030
Upon the motion of a debtor statutorily without automatic stay protection to enforce the co-debtor stay, held: The debtor has standing to enforce the co-debtor stay regardless of whether or not she is protected by the automatic stay. As the postpetition judicial sale...

07/31/2017 Norman B. Newman, solely as Liquidating Trustee of the World Marketing Liquidating Trust, successor in interest to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of World Marketing Chicago, LLC, et al. , v. Associated Bank, National Association

15 B 32968,16 A 00019

Upon the “no evidence” motion for summary judgment brought by Associated Bank, National Association, held: The movant has not established grounds for summary judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56 as it has not established the absence of genuine issue...

07/19/2017 Patrick S. Layng, United States Trustee v. Marisa Garcia (In re Marisa Garcia)

14 B 14023, 16 A 00387
The matter before the court is whether, at the request of the debtor, the court should stay an adversary proceeding, brought by the United States Trustee, seeking a denial of discharge under 11 U.S.C. § 727. The debtor argues that the existence of parallel...

Judge Thomas M. Lynch
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
09/01/2017 Patrick S. Layng v. Enrique Jaime (In re Enrique Jaime)

14 B 84356,  16 A 96048

08/31/2017 In re Lester D. Scott and Rosiland R. Scott

14 B 81270

06/19/2017 In re Enrique Jaime

14 B 83456

03/31/2017 Wanda J. Argyle v. Carol Ann Harkin (In Carol Ann Harkin)

16 B 80220, 16 A 96028

Judge Janet S. Baer
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
07/06/2017 LB Steel, LLC v. Walsh Construction Company (In re LB Steel, LLC)

15 B 35358, 16 A 00727
The Debtor filed an adversary complaint against Walsh Construction Company (“Walsh”), seeking to avoid and recover certain funds deposited with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County (the “Deposited Funds”) pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§ 547(b), 548(a), 550(a...

07/05/2017 In re Wedad Ahmad Ayesh

16 B 31591
The Debtor, appearing pro se, proposed to pay Hale Gardens Condominium Association (the “Association”) $857 through her chapter 13 plan. The Association objected to confirmation of the Debtor’s plan because it did not provide for full payment of the Association’s alleged $...

04/24/2017 In re James Henry Sullivan, Jr. and Renee A. Simmon-Sullivan

14 B 13155
The Debtors claimed three exemptions against $23,000 in settlement proceeds derived from a workplace discrimination and disability lawsuit initiated by Debtor James Henry Sullivan, Jr. against his former employer.  The chapter 7 trustee (the “Trustee”) objected to the...

04/06/2017 In re David L. Dini

13 B 25078
In September 2016, John H. Sammarco filed a motion to dismiss debtor David L. Dini’s chapter 7 case pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 707(a).  Relying on In re Schwartz, a decision issued by the Seventh Circuit in August 2015, Sammarco alleged that Dini’s case should be dismissed...

Judge A. Benjamin Goldgar
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
06/08/2017 In re Jonathan Glick; John Gierum, as trustee v. Jonathan Glick, et al.

13 B 20989, 15 A 00324

06/07/2017 In re Scott N. Jaffe

15 B 39490

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