Legal Opinion
Gilliland v. Fifth Third Mortgage Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 16, 2016No. 15-3271PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Michael Gilliland lost his home in Liberty, Indiana, after defaulting on his mortgage loan from Fifth Third Mortgage Company. In July 2013 an Indiana state trial court entered a judgment of foreclosure, which the state appellate court affirmed in March 2014. A sheriff’s sale of the property was scheduled for August 2014, but just days before Gilliland filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 13. He also filed two related adversary proceedings seeking removal of the foreclosure case from state court to the bankruptcy court and claiming that Fifth Third and its attorneys had committed state-law…
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