Legal Opinion
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver of United of America Bank v. Rabbi Mordecai Elefant, Itri Torah Research Institute and Erwin Weiner
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 16, 1986No. 85-2991, 85-3102PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
A simple action to collect a debt has produced a host of problems, all jurisdictional. We must decide whether this court has jurisdiction; having done this, we must decide whether the district court ever did, or could, have jurisdiction.
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In 1983 the ITRI Torah Research Institute borrowed $114,770 from the United of America Bank. ITRI gave the Bank a note and a mortgage on a 38-foot sports fishing boat. The Dean of ITRI, Rabbi Mordecai Elefant, later executed a note for $75,000 in the Bank’s favor. This, too, was secured by the boat, and it was supported by two…
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