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Judge Deborah L. Thorne
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
08/18/2021 Republic Bank of Chicago v. Spero A. Poulos (In re Spero A. Poulos)

20-05379, 20-00388

07/28/2021 In re Aiwa Corporation

21-07702

04/23/2021 In re Aldo Mandile

20 B 04886

Judge A. Benjamin Goldgar
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
07/29/2021 In re Robert Wheatley

19 B 17777

07/26/2021 Louis Weltman v. Jacob Hakalir (In re Jacob Hakalir)

19 B 5093, 19 A 817

07/12/2021 David Schneider and Deborah Schneider v. Michael Billon (In re Michael Billon)

20 B 17535, 20 A 413

05/17/2021 Ilene F. Goldstein, chapter 7 trustee v. William Haas and Thinheat LLC (In re VitaHEAT Medical, LLC)

18 B 35295, 20 A 00406

Judge David D. Cleary
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
07/22/2021 In re: Kalid Jama

19 B 35595
Debtor asked the court to reopen his bankruptcy case for the purpose of pursuing an action under 11 U.S.C. § 362(k).  Held: Motion denied for three reasons.  First, Debtor is a debtor in another bankruptcy case and cannot have two open cases.  Second, Debtor was never...

06/04/2021 Linda Nelson, Plaintiff v. Steven D. Zarling, Defendant (In re: Steven D. Zarling)

18 B 35437, 19 A 1009
Creditor sought denial of Debtor/Defendant’s discharge under 11 U.S.C. §§ 727(a)(2), (a)(3) and (a)(4).  Following trial, court found Debtor intended to defraud his creditors when he gave proceeds from a workers’ compensation claim to his brother, who then...

03/16/2021 Audette v. Goldman (In re Concepts America, Inc.)

14 B 34232, 16 A 691
Defendants asked the court to compel Plaintiff to produce documents identified as privileged, asserting that Plaintiff placed the documents “at issue” and waived privilege.  Held: under federal law, at-issue waiver occurs when a party affirmatively puts at issue...

03/02/2021 In re Concepts America, Inc.

14 B 34232
Applicant requested allowance and payment of administrative expense claim as a “substantial contribution” to the case pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 503(b)(3)(D).  Held: Section 503(b)(3)(D) does not support the allowance of an administrative expense claim in a case under chapter...

Judge Timothy A. Barnes
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
06/10/2021 In re Kimball Hill, Inc., et al.

08bk10095
After a decision of this court confirming, on remand from an appeal of an earlier decision of this court and in light of the issues raised by the District Court, its earlier finding of violations of the release and injunction set forth in the debtor’s confirmed plan of...

03/26/2021 In re Condor Flugdienst GmbH

20bk18167
Upon the Foreign Representatives’ Motion for Order Granting Full Force and Effect to German Confirmation Order Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§ 105(a), 1521(a), 1525(a), and 1527 and Granting Related Relief and upon the pro se objection raised by a creditor of the debtor in this...

03/05/2021 Joel F. Handler v. Emily Moore (In re Emily Moore)

19bk31162, 20ap00074
Upon the debtor-defendant’s default in this nondischargeability adversary proceeding, held: the plaintiff has established by a preponderance of the evidence that the debtor made certain misrepresentations. While those misrepresentations are generally not...

Judge Janet S. Baer
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
05/25/2021 PNC Bank, N.A. v. Paul L. Leongas (In re Paul L. Leongas)

15 B 27967, 16 A 00489
Plaintiff PNC Bank, N.A. (“PNC”) filed an adversary complaint against Paul L. Leongas (the “Debtor”), seeking a denial of the Debtor’s discharge pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§ 727(a)(2), (a)(3), (a)(4)(A), (a)(4)(D), and (a)(6). PNC argued that the Debtor was not...

Chief Judge Jacqueline P. Cox
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
04/09/2021 Sharif v. Horace Fox Jr., et al., (In re Richard Sharif)

09 B 05868, 20 A 00399
This adversary proceeding is Debtor Richard Sharif’s latest attempt to undo a default judgment he caused to be entered in 2010 denying him a discharge and declaring a trust to be his alter ego, making it property of the bankruptcy estate.
He alleges that...

03/29/2021 In re Jessie M. Knight

16 B 32994
The Debtor’s attorney has been ordered to submit an accounting of $8,300 received in settlement of a Motion for Sanctions.  A creditor refused to release title/lien on a vehicle where the underlying debt had been discharged in a completed chapter 13 case.  Because the...

Judge Thomas M. Lynch
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
03/30/2021 Thomas G. Gialamas v. Fiduciary Partners Trust Company and Old Sauk Trails Park Limited Partnership (In re Thomas G. Gialamas)

18-13341 (Western District of Wisconsin), 20-00062
In this adversary proceeding, the Debtor sought declaratory judgment that claims he may have in his capacity as primary beneficiary of a spendthrift trust were outside the scope of a broad waiver and release of claims contained in the...

03/24/2021 In re Michael J. Sandberg

20-80615
The United States Trustee moved to dismiss the Debtor’s bankruptcy under section 707(b) arguing that granting relief would constitute an abuse of chapter 7. After an evidentiary hearing, the court found that the Debtor failed to rebut the presumption of abuse reflected in his...

03/09/2021 Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union v. Tomasz Lemiszka (In re Tomasz Lemiszka)

19-82572, 19-96032
Creditor sought leave under Fed. R. Bankr. P. 7015 to amend its adversary complaint to add Bankruptcy Code sections 727(a)(2)(A) and (a)(4)(A) claims objecting to discharge. That request, however, came more than six months after discovery had closed, after the...

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