August 16, 2019
On an appeal involving contempt of the discharge injunction, would the circuit court have reached a different conclusion by employing the standard under Taggart?
7th Circuit
August 07, 2019
A judicial lien impairing a homestead exemption is avoidable in some states under Section 522(f), but not in others.
7th Circuit, Illinois
July 19, 2019
Seventh Circuit reverses and imposes the U.S. Trustee fee on ‘revolver sweeps,’ but Judge Huennekens rules that the fee increase violates two clauses in the Constitution.
7th Circuit
July 02, 2019
On an issue dividing the courts, the Seventh Circuit rules that an obligation to repay a domestic support obligation is a dischargeable debt, not a nondischargeable DSO.
7th Circuit
June 21, 2019
Disagreeing with the Tenth and D.C. Circuits and siding with four other circuits, the Seventh Circuit rules that passively holding estate property violates the automatic stay.
7th Circuit
June 18, 2019
Overruling its own precedent, the Seventh Circuit dismissed an appeal when the appellant had not filed a motion in the appeals court for permission to undertake a direct appeal, even though the bankruptcy court had certified the question to the circuit.
7th Circuit
April 17, 2019
Judge Hunt in Chicago tells debtors’ counsel to oppose inclusion of unjustifiable provisions in chapter 13 plans, even if it means contested confirmation hearings.
7th Circuit, Illinois, Illinois Northern District
April 04, 2019
Fed up with a lawyer’s frivolous litigation tactics, the federal and state courts suspended a lawyer from practice.
7th Circuit
March 18, 2019
Judge Easterbrook pens another gem. Even if you don’t like the result, you gotta like the language.
7th Circuit
