15 B 40866
An attorney has been found to have violated Rule 9011 by delaying a creditor's efforts to enforce its rights.

16 B 04589
The court found that the purchaser of the Debtor's unpaid real estate taxes was adequately protected by the "sale in error" program and potential Plan payments.

14 B 02696, 15 B 17314
The court found that it has post-confirmation jurisdiction to enforce and interpret its confirmation order in a chapter 11 case  where all transactions described therein have not been completed and a final decree has yet to be entered.

09 B 5868
The Court sanctioned Attorney Maurice James Salem and his clients Ragda Sharifeh and Haifa Sharifeh for violating Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 9011 for filing several motions and pleadings in an attempt to gain access to trust assets held to be property of the Debtor...

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...

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16 B 80220, 16 A 96028

16 B 32350

13 B 20227, 15 A 00883

16 B 22368; 16 B 25607; and 16 B 29604

14 B 27066, 16 A 00066

13 B 00627
The former Debtor reopened his bankruptcy case and filed a motion for rule to show cause against the Respondents, including Metropolitan Development Enterprises, Inc. (“MDE”), an entity previously owned by the Debtor. The Debtor alleged that the Respondents violated the...

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...

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...

15 B 32968
Upon the application from a class of former employees seeking allowance of an administrative expense claim for being terminated by the debtors in the above-captioned chapter 11 cases without notice as required by federal law and the liquidating trustee’s objection thereto,...

08 B 10095
Upon the Motion for Entry of an Order (I) Enforcing Confirmation Order; (II) Directing Dismissal of State Court Claims; (III) Awarding Damages; and (IV) Granting Related Relief, brought by successor to the purchaser of assets in the above-captioned bankruptcy cases, held: ...

12 B 14254

16 B 05361, 16 A 00287

15 B 39490

17 B 00870