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Summaries by Bonnie Clair
- Summarized by Bonnie Clair , U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Citation:
- No. 1:17-bk-13318-cjf (7th Cir. July 17, 2019) (7th Circuit, Jul 17,2019) Published
- Case Status:
- Reversed and Remanded
- Ruling:
- Reversing the ruling below, the Seventh Circuit found "disbursement" to be an "expansive term" covering all payments made by or for a debtor, including direct payments to revolving lines of credit....
- Judge(s):
- Ripple, Manion, Sykes
- Tag(s):
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- Summarized by Bonnie Clair , U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis
- 5 years 2 weeks ago
- Citation:
- No. 17-3073 (7th Circuit, Feb 26,2019) Published
- Case Status:
- Affirmed
- Ruling:
- Relying on Illinois' single action rule, which requires parties to present all theories for litigation arising from a single transaction in a single proceeding, the Court found that creditors who...
- Judge(s):
- Easterbrook, Kanne, Brennan
- Tag(s):
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- Summarized by Bonnie Clair , U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis
- 6 years 2 months ago
- Citation:
- No. 17-1019 (7th Circuit, Jan 11,2018) Published
- Case Status:
- Affirmed
- Ruling:
- In an opinion decided by quorum due to Judge Posner's retirement, the Court found that the plain language of the subject lease permitted the City to retain structures and improvements on City...
- Judge(s):
- Hamilton, Bauer, Posner
- Tag(s):
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- Summarized by Bonnie Clair , U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis
- 6 years 5 months ago
- Citation:
- Nos. 16-1940 & 16-2094 (7th Circuit, Sep 22,2017) Published
- Case Status:
- Affirmed
- Ruling:
- The Seventh Circuit affirmed the rulings below to hold $1.9 million paid by the debtor pre-petition unavoidable under Code § 547(c)(4). The Court found that the Bankruptcy Court reasonably used a...
- Judge(s):
- Sykes, Posner, Easterbrook
- Tag(s):
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- Summarized by Bonnie Clair , U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis
- 7 years 2 months ago
- Citation:
- No. 1:12-cv-01853 (7th Circuit, Jan 11,2017) Published
- Case Status:
- Affirmed
- Ruling:
- The Seventh Circuit affirmed the District Court’s grant of summary judgment to a mortgage lender, finding that the lender’s responses to informational requests substantially complied with RESPA...
- Judge(s):
- Sykes, Easterbrook, Williams
- Tag(s):
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- Summarized by Bonnie Clair , U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis
- 7 years 3 months ago
- Citation:
- Nos. 16-1690, -1692 (7th Circuit, Dec 14,2016) Not Published
- Case Status:
- Reversed and Remanded
- Ruling:
In a pithy opinion by Judge Posner, the Court found that applicable New York law prohibits a party from obtaining the benefits of a contract while failing to shoulder the burdens of that...
- Judge(s):
- Wood, Posner, Rovner
- Tag(s):
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- Summarized by Bonnie Clair , U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis
- 8 years 12 months ago
- Citation:
- Metrou v. M.A. Morteson Co., No. 14-8030, --- WL --- (7th Cir. Mar. 23, 2015)
- Ruling:
- In a matter of first impression at the appellate level and reversing the decision below, the Seventh Circuit declined to utilize judicial estoppel to cap a Chapter 7 trustee's potential recovery in...
- Judge(s):
- Easterbrook, Flaum, Williams
- Tag(s):
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- Summarized by Bonnie Clair , U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis
- 9 years 1 month ago
- Citation:
- Hotel 71 Mezz Lender, LLC v. The National Retirement Fund, No. 14-2034, --- WL --- (7th Cir. Feb. 6, 2015)
- Ruling:
- The Court reversed and remanded a sua sponte grant of summary judgment against a party that also unsuccessfully moved for summary judgment. The Court found that, absent a record "clear beyond...
- Judge(s):
- Rovner, Bauer, Tinder
- Tag(s):
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- Summarized by Bonnie Clair , U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis
- 9 years 2 months ago
- Citation:
- Cirilli v. Bronk (In re Bronk), Nos. 13-1123 & 13-1516, --- WL --- (7th Cir. Jan. 5, 2014)
- Ruling:
- Applying Wisconsin law, the Court reversed the ruling that only account beneficiaries and not account owners could exempt college savings accounts and affirmed the ruling that the annuity in...
- Judge(s):
- Sykes, Manion, Kanne
- Tag(s):
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- Summarized by Bonnie Clair , U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis
- 9 years 3 months ago
- Citation:
- United States v. Bey, No. 13-2810, 2014 WL 6765108 (7th Cir. Dec. 2, 2014).
- Ruling:
- The Court affirmed the Defendant's conviction for failure to surrender to serve her sentence for bankruptcy crime on grounds that the attorney-client privilege did not prevent the admission of...
- Judge(s):
- Wood, Bauer, Hamilton
- Tag(s):
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