The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not err in granting a chapter 7 debtor's motion to reopen a case to avoid a judicial lien on the debtor's LLC...
1) Under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, a state-court judgment creditor is not guaranteed an allowed claim for the state-court judgment once the debtor files for bankruptcy relief. The state court...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held a bankruptcy court did not err in concluding the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and the doctrines of res judicata and collateral estoppel did not bar...
Unscheduled legal claims remain property of the bankruptcy estate after discharge and cannot be considered abandoned, therefore a debtor lacks standing to pursue the claim through subsequent...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (“7th Cir.”) affirmed the entry of summary judgment in favor of creditor LSQ Funding Group, L.C. (“LSQ”) and against Douglas Mann,...
Agreeing with the U.S. Bankruptcy and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois (BC and DC), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Circuit) found no error in the...
Judge(s):
Michael B. Brennan; Michael Y. Scudder; and Thomas Kirsch
Like the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (DC), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit concluded that Kenneth Pucillo (Pucillo) lacked Article III standing to...
Judge(s):
Michael B. Brennan; Thomas Kirsch; and John Z. Lee
Consolidating appeals arising out of the chapter 7 case of Richard Sharif (DR), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Circuit) affirmed the bankruptcy court’s rulings: denying the...
Judge(s):
Frank H. Easterbrook; Diane P. Wood; and Thomas L. Kirsch II
In an opinion affirming a contempt finding by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois (BC) affirmed by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (DC),...
Judge(s):
Michael Y. Scudder; Thomas Kirsch; and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the award of more than $9.5M in damages to third party TRG Venture Two LLC (“TRG”) caused by creditor Fidelity and Deposit Company’s (“Fidelity”) pursuit of...
Judge(s):
Scudder (opinion author), Kirsch, and Jackson-Akiwumi
