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Judge Janet S. Baer
Date Issuedsort descending Description
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...

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...

Judge Thomas M. Lynch
Date Issuedsort descending Description
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

05/18/2016 In re James R. Thompson

16-80445

05/23/2016 In re Jeremy Curtis Leggo and Jennifer M. Leggo

10-71124

Judge Timothy A. Barnes
Date Issuedsort descending Description
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...

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...

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...

08/04/2016 In re Bluberi Gaming Technologies Inc., et al.

16 B 05364
On the motion of creditor and contract counterparty seeking an order of this court compelling the contractual performance of debtor in foreign proceeding under 11 U.S.C. § 365(n)(4), held:  While, pursuant to the terms of the recognition order, 11 U.S.C. § 365 applies in...

09/13/2016 In re Ace Track Co., Ltd.

15 B 13819
Upon the Amended Motion for Order Granting Protection under 11 U.S.C. § 1522, brought by a creditor in the above-captioned chapter 15 case, held:  The motion raises serious concerns regarding the propriety of actions purportedly taken by the debtor in the chapter 15 case...

Chief Judge Jacqueline P. Cox
Date Issuedsort descending Description
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...

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...

08/10/2016 In re 401 Properties Limited Partnership

14 B 44983
This is Debtor 401 Properties Limited Partnership's second Chapter 11 case.  Its first Chapter 11 case was found to have been filed in bad faith and dismissed on August 16, 2010 - case number 10 B 28114. The court found that the second case was also filed...

08/31/2016 In re Thomas L. Handy and Mary Handy

 15 B 37632
Seventeen days after the Debtors modified their confirmed Chapter 13 plan the Trustee asked to have their case dismissed on term of plan grounds because it would take 86 months to complete plan payments. The court denied the motion ruling that the court can not confirm a...

Judge A. Benjamin Goldgar
Date Issuedsort descending Description
05/05/2016 In re Lanny Gibrick; Robert Golden v. Lanny Gibrick

15 B 23651, 16 A 00014

05/18/2016 In re Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., Inc., et al.

15 B 01145

07/05/2016 In re Todd DiPiero; Lauren I. Pausch v. Todd DiPiero

15 B 05807, 15 A 00337

08/09/2016 In re Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., Inc., et al.

15 B 01145

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

14 B 08893

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