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Judge David D. Cleary
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
07/31/2020 In re Winifred E. Gaddy

16 B 25958
Chapter 13 debtor requested a hardship discharge.  The parties agreed that her failure to complete plan payments was due to circumstances for which she should not justly be held accountable.  Held: her case would have been a no-asset under chapter 7, the debtor sought...

03/31/2020 In re Pericles S. Couchell

19 B 7328
Adversary plaintiff filed his complaint objecting to discharge and dischargeability 19 minutes after the deadline expired.  He asked the court to excuse the late filing.  Held: the excusable neglect standard of Fed. R. Bankr. P. 9006(b)(1) does not apply to complaints...

Chief Judge Jacqueline P. Cox
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
07/27/2020 M S International, Inc. v. Pramod Patel and Ankit Shah (In re Pramod Patel and In re Ankit Shah)

 19 B 08032 and 19 B 08037; 19 A 00740 (Consolidated with 19 A 00741)
Debtors Pramod Patel and Ankit Shah worked for several years for Plaintiff M S International, Inc. They left to work for their former employer’s competitor. They were found liable in a civil action in a California...

06/29/2020 In re Robert M. Kowalski

18 B 09130
The Federal Deposit Insurance Company objected to proofs of claim filed by attorneys who represented the Debtor’s spouse in a dissolution of marriage case. The state court awarded fees to the attorneys in connection with establishing support owed to the Debtor’s former...

02/06/2020 In re Marcella Marie Mance

19 B 33057
In reliance on a recent ruling in In re Wigfall, 606 B.R. 784, the court avoided the City of Chicago’s lien on the Debtor’s vehicle after finding that it was a judicial lien subject to avoidance under Section 522(f) of the Bankruptcy Code.  The City contended that it was a...

01/16/2020 In re Edison Mission Energy, et. al

12 B 49219
The court denied Mar-Bow Value Partners’ motion for leave to reopen these jointly administered cases as an amicus to address McKinsey Recovery & Transformation’s Rule 2014 disclosures which were submitted several years ago to secure court appointment as the Debtors’...

Judge Deborah L. Thorne
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
07/24/2020 In re Emerald Casino, Inc.

02-bk-22977

04/08/2020 In re Ann Terrell

19-bk-07629

01/21/2020 3991 Transport Company. Inc. v. Carolyn Alexander (In re 3991 Transport Company Inc.)

19-14253, 19-00866

Judge Timothy A. Barnes
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
07/21/2020 In re D/C Distribution, LLC

07bk12776
Upon the motion for relief from the automatic stay brought by certain asbestos claimants, alleging cause exists for relief from the automatic stay to pursue only available insurance coverage, held: The movants have met the cause requirement under 11 U.S.C. § 362(d)(1)....

06/19/2020 Andrew J. Maxwell, trustee for the estate of Horizon Group Management, LLC v. United States of America (In re Horizon Group Management, LLC)

14bk41230, 16ap00465
On the defendant’s motion for summary judgment, seeking judgment in its favor on its good faith transferee for value defense under 11 U.S.C. § 548(c) to the trustee’s fraudulent transfer claims, held:  The defendant has established grounds for summary judgment...

Judge A. Benjamin Goldgar
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
07/06/2020 Schiller DuCanto & Fleck, LLP v. Potter (In re Teri Potter)

19 B 23246, 20 A 18

06/01/2020 Chad A. Groom v. Patrick L. Krook (In re Patrick L. Krook)

19 B 2216, 19 A 00982

01/13/2020 In re Joseph Van

16 B 19075

Judge Donald R. Cassling
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
06/03/2020 In re Hitz Restaurant Group

20 B 05012

01/28/2020 In re Louis John Capra

19 B 15935

12/23/2019 In Re Sabrina Fay Lofton

19 B 23136

Judge Janet S. Baer
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
04/30/2020 Dimitri Karras v. Bryce Stirlen (In re Bryce Stirlen)

17 B 06666, 17 A 00424
Dimitri Karras filed an adversary complaint against Bryce Stirlen, seeking a determination that a debt owed to him by Stirlen was not dischargeable pursuant to §§ 523(a)(2)(A), (a)(4), and (a)(6). In response, Stirlen filed a counterclaim, asserting that he was...

01/21/2020 In re Fayyaz Karim and Lisa A. Karim

18 B 28055
Debtor Fayyaz Karim (“Karim”) filed a motion for entry of an order of contempt against the Illinois Department of Revenue (“IDOR”), alleging that IDOR had violated the discharge injunction by attempting to collect a penalty debt that had been discharged in his chapter 7...

Judge Thomas M. Lynch
Date Issuedsort ascending Description
03/31/2020 Deborah Aeschliman v. Cherie Lynne Vraney (In re Vraney)

18-82365, 19-96005
In adversary proceeding brought following Plaintiff’s ouster from retail joint venture, judgment entered in favor of Debtor following trial on objections to discharge under § 523(a)(2)(A) and § 523(a)(6) after finding, among other things, that (1) Plaintiff did not...

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