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Chief Judge Jacqueline P. Cox
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
12/19/2019 Pavletich v. Rose (In re Karen S. Rose)

18 B 21202, 19 A 00107
The Debtor Karen S. Rose was found liable to Plaintiff Steven Pavletich in state court for $250,000 on a defamation claim.  She published statements on social media that the Plaintiff cheated on his wife.  This adversary trial covered only her defense that the...

12/03/2019 In re John W. Fliss

15 B 29567
A bank obtained a judgment in state court on a loan to two businesses that the Debtor had guaranteed.  One of the Debtor’s co-obligors arranged to have an entity he controlled buy the judgment rather than pay to have the judgment released, thereby allowing the entity to...

08/30/2019 In re Royalty Properties, LLC

19 B 07692
The court converted the Chapter 11 case filed by Debtor Royalty Properties, LLC to Chapter 7, finding that it was filed in bad faith as a litigation tactic to delay a mortgage foreclosure case filed 10 years ago.  The debt was incurred in 2006 to purchase its main asset, a...

Judge A. Benjamin Goldgar
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
12/18/2019 CR Adventures LLC d/b/a CR Farms v. Michael Hughes (In re Michael Hughes)

18 B 11700, 18 A 00257

08/06/2019 In re Judith K. Begoun

13 B 27604

07/18/2019 Ilene F. Goldstein v. Jason Lewis Zilberbrand (In re Jason Lewis Zilberbrand)

17 B 4034, 19 A 129

Judge Timothy A. Barnes
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
12/05/2019 Jeffrey Michael Davis v. Conduent, National Student Loan Program...(In re Jeffrey Michael Davis)

18bk04521, 18ap00185
On a plaintiff-debtor’s adversary complaint, seeking a discharge of presumptively nondischargeable student loan debt pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(8)(A), held: the plaintiff-debtor has failed to show by a preponderance of the evidence that he would suffer an...

10/25/2019 In re Sindesmos Hellinikes-Kinotitos of Chicago

18bk34548
On a motion for relief from the order approving the sale of the debtor’s real property, including a church, filed by the parishioners of the church, held:  The court concludes that the movants have failed to establish the requirements to vacate the sale order under Federal...

10/10/2019 Aire Serv LLC v. Roberts (In re Joseph F. Roberts and Dorothy L. Roberts)

19bk06272, 19ap00587
On a motion for a preliminary injunction by the plaintiff, a former franchisor of a business owned and operated by the debtor-defendant, to prohibit the debtor-defendant from operating such business in alleged violation of a covenant not to compete entered into in...

09/30/2019 In re LLC 1 07CH12487

13bk49315
Upon the chapter 7 debtor’s motion to dismiss its bankruptcy case, which was remanded to this court for further findings that would permit dismissal or further proceedings in the case following an uncontested appeal by a creditor opposing dismissal, the court having entered...

Judge Janet S. Baer
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
11/15/2019 In re Gerald O. McInerney

16 B 40442
Gina B. Krol (the "Trustee"), chapter 7 trustee for the bankruptcy estate of Gerald O. McInerney (the "Debtor"), filed a motion for turnover of the estate’s interest in the Debtor’s federal and state income tax refunds for 2016 pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§ 541 and 542. At issue...

05/23/2019 Brenda P. Helms v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Michael K. O’Malley, Tracy Zellmer, and TAMO, LLC (Michael K. O’Malley)

13 B 10864, 16 A 00552
Chapter 7 trustee and plaintiff Brenda P. Helms filed an adversary complaint against Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, debtor Michael K. O’Malley, his spouse Tracy Zellmer, and Zellmer’s company TAMO, LLC, seeking: a declaratory judgment that O’Malley’s...

Judge Thomas M. Lynch
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
09/30/2019 In re Donna J. Neely

18-81432
Debtor’s objection to a claim alleging breach of fiduciary duty with respect to various family trusts was sustained in part and overruled in part following trial, finding that Claimants: (1) had standing as contingent trust beneficiaries to bring their claim; (2) failed to...

09/03/2019 In re Thomas G. Gialamas

18-13341 (Western District of Wisconsin)
Creditor’s motion for relief from the automatic stay and to abandon property is denied because Creditor failed to show that he held a lien against property of the bankruptcy estate on the basis of a state court order for supplementary...

08/29/2019 In re Samuel T. Rowell

18-81847
Debtor’s objection to claim asserted by former tenants sustained in part and overruled in part. Claim for unjust enrichment based on Claimants’ contribution to purchase of property allowed; remainder of claim barred by the statute of frauds or the terms of the lease agreement...

08/06/2019 Michael Draka v. Joshua J. Andrea (In re Andrea)

18-80357, 18-96014
Judgment entered in favor of Debtor on objection to discharge under § 523(a)(6) after finding that Plaintiff did not meet his burden of proving that the Debtor was liable for a debt for willful and malicious injury arising out of a motorcycle accident.

06/27/2019 In re Thomas G. Gialamas

18-13341 (Western District of Wisconsin)
Debtor’s opposed first motion under section 1121 to extend the exclusivity periods to file and obtain acceptance of a chapter 11 plan of reorganization granted based in part on pending cross-motions for summary judgment in a preference action...

Judge Deborah L. Thorne
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
09/24/2019 In re Westlake Property Holdings, LLC, et al.

19-22878 (jointly administered)

05/22/2019 Cheryl Holman v. Johnson & Johnson

19ap00645

Judge Donald R. Cassling
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
07/16/2019 In re Parkland Properties, LLC, et al.

13 B 22702

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