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Judge Janet S. Baer
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
06/20/2016 MWRD Employees’ Credit Union v. Selina L. Frazier (In re Selina L. Frazier)

15 B 05304, 15 A 00812
The Plaintiff filed an adversary complaint in the bankruptcy case of the Debtor, seeking a determination that a debt owed to the Plaintiff by the Debtor in connection with her car is not dischargeable and that the Debtor is not entitled to a discharge.  The car...

03/29/2016 LB Steel, LLC v. Walsh Construction Company and Dorothy Brown, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Cook County, Illinois (In re LB Steel, LLC)

15 B 35358, 15 A 00876
The Debtor filed an adversary complaint against Walsh Construction Company and the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, seeking:  (1) a determination that certain funds deposited with the Clerk pursuant to a judgment order entered by the Circuit Court are...

Chief Judge Jacqueline P. Cox
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
06/20/2016 Tahira Sharf (Ali) v. Zahir Uddin Sharf (In re Zahir Uddin Sharf)

15 B 013904, 15 A 00568
In this case a former spouse has asked that certain debts/obligations of a Chapter 7 Debtor established in a Dissolution of Marriage Judgment be held to be not dischargeable under Sections 523(a)(5) and (a)(15) of the Bankruptcy Code.  The Court found that the...

04/26/2016 In re: Richard Sharif, Ragda Sharifeh (as successor trustee/beneficiary of the Soad Wattar Revocable Living Trust) v. Horace Fox, Jr., Chapter 7 Trustee, Richard Sharif (as former Trustee of the Soad Wattar Revocable Living Trust), et al.

09 B 05868, 12 A 00430

Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Wellness International Network v. Sharif, the Seventh Circuit affirmed a 2010 order that this Court entered which found that a Trust that the Debtor (Sharif) administered was the Debtor’s alter-ego and therefore its assets...

03/10/2016 In re Oswaldo Rodriguez; AmeriCredit Financial Services, Inc. v. Oswaldo Rodriguez

14 B 41542, 15 A 00009
The Debtor defaulted on a vehicle loan within a month of purchasing a 2015 Chevrolet Equinox.  He was referred to the vehicle dealership by Uber, the ride-sharing service. AmeriCredit failed to convince the Court that the Debt was nondischargeable because the...

02/18/2016 In re 401 Properties Limited Partnership; Rock Solid Gelt Limited Partnership and Legacy Re, Ltd. v. 401 Properties Limited Partnership

14 B 44983, 15 A 00499
Court overruled objection that a partial assignee of a note lacks standing to sue on it.

01/28/2016 In re LJBV LTD

15 B 35961
In this matter, the Court granted secured creditor 36 Holdings, LLC’s Motion to Dismiss the Debtor’s Chapter 11 Case. The Debtor is a single-asset real estate entity that filed for bankruptcy on the day a receiver was appointed in a pre-petition state court foreclosure case...

Judge Timothy A. Barnes
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
06/02/2016 Steege v. Johnsson (In re Margaret Ann Johnsson)

11 B 38307, 14 A 00106
Upon the Chapter 7 Trustee’s adversary complaint under 11 U.S.C. §§ 727(d)(1) and (2), wherein the Chapter 7 Trustee seeks to revoke the debtor’s discharge as a result of, respectively, alleged failures to disclose a prepetition property interest and to disclose...

04/18/2016 In re Ramon Aguirre and Bertha Aguirre

14 B 24420
Upon the third party tax purchaser’s motion for relief from the automatic stay, contending that the Debtors’ default under the provisions of the confirmed plan requiring payment to purchaser in full of its claim by a certain date was cause to lift the automatic stay, and...

04/05/2016 In re Lake Michigan Beach Pottawattamie Resort LLC

15 B 42427
Upon a creditor’s motion seeking to dismiss a chapter 11 case, wherein the creditor alleged that the debtor filed its bankruptcy petition in bad faith because the case was filed on the eve of foreclosure and without the consent of the creditor, as a voting member of the...

Judge Thomas M. Lynch
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
05/23/2016 In re Jeremy Curtis Leggo and Jennifer M. Leggo

10-71124

05/18/2016 In re James R. Thompson

16-80445

03/30/2016 In re Renee M. Budwick

13-83623

03/30/2016 BMO Harris Bank, N.A. v. Vista Marketing Group, Ltd., State of Illinois, Stenstrom Petroleum Services Group... (In re Vista Marketing Group, Ltd.)

12-83168, 14-96013

03/08/2016 In re Jose Acevedo, Jr.

14-80117

Judge Deborah L. Thorne
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
05/19/2016 In re Calumet Photographic, Inc., et al.

14 B 08893

Judge A. Benjamin Goldgar
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
05/18/2016 In re Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., Inc., et al.

15 B 01145

05/05/2016 In re Lanny Gibrick; Robert Golden v. Lanny Gibrick

15 B 23651, 16 A 00014

03/16/2016 In re Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., Inc., et al.

15 B 01145

02/26/2016 In re Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., Inc., et al.; Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., Inc., et al. v. BOKF, N.A., et al.

15 B 01145,  15 A 00149

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