In Re Luster
United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Illinois
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
EUGENE R. WEDOFF, Bankruptcy Judge.
The two cases now before the court have been considered together because they present the identical legal issue: whether the trustee in a liquidating bankruptcy under the 1898 Bankruptcy Act may claim, as property of the estate, net operating loss (“NOL”) carryovers to which the debtors would have been entitled outside of bankruptcy. This issue has been raised by the trustee’s motions for summary judgment in each of the cases. For the reasons discussed below, the court finds that the debtors’ prepetition NOL carryovers are available to…
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