Crawford v. First Nationwide Mortgage Corp.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER .

SHADUR, Senior District Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision by Bankruptcy Judge Ronald Barliant that hinges on precisely when under Illinois law a debtor’s “residence is sold as at a foreclosure sale that is conducted in accordance with applicable nonbankruptey law” — the language of 11 U.S.C. § 1322(c)(1) (“Section 1322(c)(1)”), which was introduced into the Bankruptcy Code by the Bankruptcy Reform *559Act of 1994. Like his colleague Bankruptcy Judge Eugene Wedoff (see In re Christian, 199 B.R. 382 (Bankr.N.D.Ill.1996)), Judge Barliant held in his January 21,…