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Chief Judge Jacqueline P. Cox
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
07/21/2022 In re Renee Julia Liss

10-11690
The Debtor moved to reopen her bankruptcy case to avoid a judgment lien, arguing it impaired a homestead exemption in the subject property.  The Claimant objected.  The Debtor was permitted to reopen her bankruptcy case.  The request seeking lien avoidance was heard...

05/27/2022 In re 318 Retail, LLC

22 BK 02485 (Involuntary)
A receiver appointed in a domestic relations case to sell the husband’s assets sought leave to respond to an involuntary bankruptcy petition filed against the Alleged Debtor, a corporate entity in which the husband had an interest. A petitioning creditor, a...

05/19/2022 Trustee v. Brown, Udell, Pomerantz & Delrahim, Ltd. (In re Michael S. Helmstetter)

19 BK 28687, 22 AP 00019
The Trustee filed an Adversary Complaint seeking to invalidate a law firm’s statutory attorney’s fees lien and to limit its recovery of fees because its purported lien failed to meet the statutory requirement to disclose its interest, the fee that the client...

03/09/2022 In re Gordon Green

21 B 06189
The Chapter 7 Trustee objected to the Debtor’s claim of exemption relating to a retirement plan organized under Canadian law. The court interpreted relevant federal and Illinois statutes in sustaining the objection.  Illinois law governs exemption of assets in bankruptcy...

Judge David D. Cleary
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
06/06/2022 In re: National Tractor Parts, Inc.

20 B 20833
Chapter 11 subchapter V debtor confirmed its consensual plan.  After the effective date of the plan, and after four payments were made to creditors, debtor requested authority to modify the confirmed plan.  The U.S. Trustee objected on the grounds that the plan was...

05/27/2022 In re: Peter J Szafraniec

21 B 10216
Trustee objected to confirmation of Debtor’s chapter 13 plan on the grounds that he did not propose the plan in good faith and that the plan does not provide that all of his projected disposable income will be committed to unsecured creditors.  HELD: Objection overruled. ...

04/29/2022 In re: Dimitrios Tsanos

22 B 00998
Chapter 13 Trustee sought dismissal of Debtor’s case as well as a bar to refiling.  HELD: While automatic dismissal was not appropriate, cause existed to dismiss the case under 11 U.S.C. § 1307(c).  There was no evidence that Debtor, who owed significant arrearages to two...

02/23/2022 In re: Tracy Drake

21 B 4903
Tax purchaser Integrity objected to confirmation of chapter 13 plan on the grounds that the interest rate Debtor proposed did not provide Integrity with the present value of the allowed amount of its claim as required by 11 U.S.C. § 1325(a)(5)(B)(ii).  HELD: Objection...

02/17/2022 In re: Robert Smith, Jr.

21 B 12101
Debtor filed a chapter 13 plan that proposed to separately classify a nondischargeable claim and pay it in full while other unsecured creditors receive a 10% distribution.  The Chapter 13 Trustee objected to confirmation on the grounds that the plan unfairly discriminated...

Judge Deborah L. Thorne
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
05/09/2022 David Blazek v. John E. Kubin (In re John E. Kubin)

18-02853, 22-00030

04/05/2022 In re Tara Lynn Galloway

18-04903

02/16/2022 Republic Bank of Chicago v. Spero A. Poulos (In re Spero A. Poulos)

20-05379, 20-00388

Judge A. Benjamin Goldgar
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
04/21/2022 In re Michael J. Cashion

21 B 8085

03/14/2022 In re Donald T. Krihak, II

14 B 574

03/07/2022 In re Julio A. and Bonnie L. Garcia

22 B 130

Judge Donald R. Cassling
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
04/04/2022 Renew Packaging, LLC v. Camilo Andres Ferro (In re Camilo Andres Ferro)

20 B 10492, 20 A 00273

Judge Timothy A. Barnes
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
03/30/2022 In re Jewel Carter

17bk03367
On the competing motions of the chapter 13 trustee to dismiss a debtor’s case for failure to make plan payments and the debtor’s motion to modify his plan to allow it to complete without further payment, held:  Both the debtor’s defense to the trustee’s motion and the debtor...

03/11/2022 In re Marshall Spiegel

20bk21625
On a debtor’s objection to the claim of the issuing bank which holds a letter of credit to back the debtor’s appeal of litigation sanctions against, held: The debtor argues that the terms of the letter of credit should be strictly enforced against the issuing bank, while not...

03/04/2022 In re Bruce K. Propst

15bk12654
Following the debtor’s reopening of a discharged, no asset chapter 7 case nearly six years after the case’s first closure and on the debtor’s motion seeking avoidance of a previously unavoided judgment lien, held:  While the avoidance of a lien might be considered ordinary...

Judge Thomas M. Lynch
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
02/07/2022 In re David R. Faccone

20-81450

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