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...

18bk04521, 18ap00185
On a plaintiff-debtor’s adversary complaint, seeking a discharge of presumptively nondischargeable student loan debt pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(8)(A), held: the plaintiff-debtor has failed to show by a preponderance of the evidence that he would suffer an...

18bk34548
On a motion for relief from the order approving the sale of the debtor’s real property, including a church, filed by the parishioners of the church, held:  The court concludes that the movants have failed to establish the requirements to vacate the sale order under Federal...

20 B 05012

19 B 15935

19 B 23136

19 B 2216, 19 A 00982

16 B 19075

18 B 11700, 18 A 00257

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...

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...

16 B 40442
Gina B. Krol (the "Trustee"), chapter 7 trustee for the bankruptcy estate of Gerald O. McInerney (the "Debtor"), filed a motion for turnover of the estate’s interest in the Debtor’s federal and state income tax refunds for 2016 pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§ 541 and 542. At issue...

19-bk-07629

19-14253, 19-00866

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...

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...

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...

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’...

18 B 21202, 19 A 00107
The Debtor Karen S. Rose was found liable to Plaintiff Steven Pavletich in state court for $250,000 on a defamation claim.  She published statements on social media that the Plaintiff cheated on his wife.  This adversary trial covered only her defense that the...

15 B 29567
A bank obtained a judgment in state court on a loan to two businesses that the Debtor had guaranteed.  One of the Debtor’s co-obligors arranged to have an entity he controlled buy the judgment rather than pay to have the judgment released, thereby allowing the entity to...