17 B 17844

15 B 1145

15 B 1145

 AMENDED - 16 B 2160, 16 A 358

15bk32968
Upon the adversary defendants’ motion for leave to file counterclaims against the liquidating trustee, held:  The Barton doctrine, which requires a party to seek leave to file claims against a trustee in a bankruptcy case, is inapplicable when the claims are brought in an...

14bk14023, 16ap00387
Upon the U.S. trustee’s complaint seeking to deny discharge for the debtor under 11 U.S.C. § 727(a)(4)(A), wherein the U.S. trustee alleged that the debtor failed to disclose certain assets on her bankruptcy petition, held: The U.S. trustee has not proven by a...

16bk09485
Upon a debtor’s motion for rule to show cause on alleged violations of the automatic stay, held: The debtor has established the requisite grounds for relief arising from the alleged stay violations only as it relates to creditor’s postconversion conduct. The creditor, the...

15bk31790, 16ap00004
Upon the adversary plaintiff’s complaint for determination of nondischargeability of debt pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A), held: the plaintiff has failed to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the debtor owed a debt to the plaintiff.  The plaintiff...

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...

15 B 17676, 16 A 00020
Plaintiff City of Chicago (the “City”) filed an adversary complaint against debtor Ronald Spielman (“Spielman”), seeking a determination that a debt owed to it by Spielman by virtue of a federal district court default judgment was not dischargeable pursuant to...

18 B 03147

14 B 27066, 16 A 00066

17-bk-06666

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.

17 B 81746
Creditor’s Motion to Convert Debtors’ Chapter 12 to Chapter 7 is denied for failure to demonstrate fraud in connection with this case as required under §1208(d).

17-81489
The Court sustained the Chapter 7 Trustee’s objection to the Debtor’s claimed exemption of an inherited retirement account because the account did not qualify for the Illinois exemption for retirement plans.

17-82877
The Court sustained Associated Bank’s objection to confirmation of the Debtor’s proposed plan because the plan did not comply with the “equal monthly amounts” provision of 11 U.S.C. § 1325(a)(5)(B)(iii)(I).

17-82800

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...

15 B 43653, 16 A 206
The court denied the Debtor a discharge of her student loan debts, finding that she can maintain more than a minimal standard of living if forced to repay them.