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Chief Judge Jacqueline P. Cox
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
09/17/2010 In re Edward Joseph Signore and Kanella Virginia Signore; James Kafantaris v. Kanella Signore

09 B 13534, 09 A 00667

The court stuck most of the plaintiff's responses to the defendant's Local Rule 7056-1 statement of facts in support of her motion for summary judgment. The plaintiff admitted many of the facts asserted by the defendant. The court deemed as admitted many of the...

09/17/2010 In re Edward Joseph Signore and Kanella Virginia Signore; James Kafantaris v. Kanella Signore

09 B 13534, 09 A 00667

The court ruled in favor of the defendant on a count under 11 U.S.C. section 523(a)(4) charging defalcation or fraud while acting in a fiduciary capacity, finding as a matter of law that the defendant did not owe her brother or mother a fiduciary duty regarding...

07/16/2010 In re Gander Partners LLC; In re Copper Peak Development Corporation; In re Prairie View Development Corporation jointly administered under case number 10 B 00887;Gander Partners LLC, et al v. Harris Bank, NA

10 B 08877, 10 B 08882, 10 B 08879, 10 A 00981

The court granted Debtors' motion for a preliminary injunction staying various lawsuits pending against Debtors' guarantors. Harris Bank, N.A. objected to the entry of a preliminary injunction and argued, among other things, that the...

06/24/2010 In re IFC Credit Corporation; David P. Leibowitz, the Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of IFC Credit Corporation v. First Chicago Bank and Trust

09 B 27094, 09 A 01230

The court granted Robert D. Leavitt and Lowis & Gellen LLP's Motion to Dismiss the Third Party Complaint of First Chicago Bank and Trust (FCBT), which alleged that as a result of the professional malpractice of Mr. Leavitt and the Lowis & Gellen law firm...

06/08/2010 In re Daniel and Roberta Fenn

09 B 49343

On May 17, 2010 the court denied confirmation of the Debtors' proposed Chapter 13 Plan because it did not provide for retention of the totally unsecured junior mortgage creditor's lien until discharge under 11 U.S.C. Section 1328 or payment under nonbankruptcy law as...

05/25/2010 In re Michael C. Brace

09 B 44558

The court granted the U.S. Trustee's Motion to Dismiss the Debtor's chapter 7 case pursuant to 11 U.S.C. section 707(b)(3) because granting the Debtor a chapter 7 discharge would result in substantial abuse of the Bankruptcy Code given the totality of the circumstances. The...

05/17/2010 In re Daniel and Roberta Fenn

09 B 49343

The court sustained Wells Fargo Bank's Objection to Confirmation of the Debtors' April 12, 2010 chapter 13 plan which proposed to avoid Wells Fargo's wholly unsecured junior lien on a residential property. The court found that while debtors may generally avoid wholly...

04/15/2010 In re Computer World Solution, Inc.; Computer World Solution, Inc. v. Apple Fund, L.P. and Astor Partners, LLC

07 B 21123, 08 A 00180

This is an amended opinion; the original opinion was signed on March 17, 2010. This case involved a preference action under 11 U.S.C. sec. 547 to recover three payments made to the Defendants during the pre-petition preference period. The court found that the...

04/09/2010 In re J.S. II, LLC, et al.

07 B 03856

This is an amended order; the original order was issued on April 1, 2010. The court found that two creditors willfully violated the automatic stay by pursuing a District Court action against several Debtors despite the creditors' knowledge of the ongoing bankruptcy case....

01/27/2010 In re IFC Credit Corporation

09 B 27094

The court granted the Trustee’s motion for a preliminary injunction staying various lawsuits pending against former directors and officers of the Debtor. The court found that the Trustee was entitled to a preliminary injunction because the pending lawsuits would likely...

12/16/2009 In re IFC Credit Corporation

09 B 27094

The court denied a motion to dismiss the bankruptcy case due to the initial petition being filed by a non-lawyer on behalf of the corporation based upon laches and Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 1009 after the movants waited three months to file the motion once the...

Date Issuedsort ascending Description
09/09/2010 In re Florica Marcela Bulgarea; Ilene F. Goldstein, Trustee v. National City Mortgage Company and LaSalle Bank, N.A., n/k/a Bank of America

08 B 19992, 08 A 01019

08/18/2010 In re Polo Builders, Inc., et al.; David R. Brown, Trustee v. Kamil Job, Manco Carpentry Group, Manco Construction, Inc., and Manco Homes, Inc.

04 B 23758, 06 A 01140

07/13/2010 In re Randy E. Reyes; One-on-One Fitness Personal Training Service, Inc. v. Randy E. Reyes

09 B 35198, 09 A 01277

06/30/2010 In re Life Fund 5.1, LLC, et al.; Jeff Marwil, Trustee v. Brent Oncale; Russell Mackert; Adley Abdulwahab; a/k/a Adley Wahab; Christian Allmendinger; A&O Life Funds, LP; A&O Life Funds Management, LLC; and Shepherd Capital Management, LLC

09 B 32672, 10 A 00042

06/23/2010 In re marchFirst, Inc.; Andrew J. Maxwell, Trustee v. Novell, Inc.

01 B 24742, 09 A 00104

04/29/2010 In re Commercial Loan Corporation; CLC Creditors’ Grantor Trust v. Howard Savings Bank, Lincoln State Bank, HSB Development Corporation, Howard Liquidation Corporation, and LSB Financial Services, Inc.

04 B 18946, 05 A 02538

03/12/2010 In re Douglas M. Adams and Leanne Adams

08 B 20217

02/04/2010 In re Michael Letourneau

09 B 09199

01/06/2010 In re Brian E. Bacardi and Jean M. Bacardi

09 B 25757

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