Legal Opinion
In Re IFC Credit Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 5, 2011No. 11-2172PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
IFC Credit Corporation voluntarily declared bankruptcy under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code on July 27, 2009. Its bankruptcy petition was signed only by its president, however, and he is not a lawyer — a slip that precipitated this appeal— though the next day the company filed an amended petition signed by a lawyer.
Prior to the filing of the bankruptcy petition, a creditor of IFC (Northbrook Bank & Trust — actually its predecessor, First Chicago Bank & Trust, but we can ignore that detail) had sued IFC, charging fraud. Upon the filing of the original petition, all…
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