Legal Opinion
In re Chavin
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 22, 1998No. 97-3085PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Leonard Chavin was petitioned into Chapter 7 bankruptcy by his creditors. On the basis of false statements and misleading omissions by Chavin in his bankruptcy schedules and other filings in the bankruptcy proceeding, the trustee in bankruptcy asked the bankruptcy judge to deny Chavin a discharge of his debts. That judge, seconded by the district judge, granted summary judgment for the trustee, finding 17 instances in which Chavin had either concealed assets “with intent to ... defraud” the creditors and the trustee, 11 U.S.C. § 727(a)(2), or “knowingly and fraudulently”…
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