Legal Opinion
Tidwell v. Smith (In Re Smith)
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 23, 2009No. 08-3358PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
When defendant-appellant Dr. Bruce S. Smith filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition in September 2005, he failed to include appellees Trina Tidwell and Sandra Sterling-Ahlla on his schedule of creditors holding unsecured, nonpriority claims. Tidwell and Sterling-Ahlla had sued Smith in state court for sexual assault. Because Smith omitted Tidwell and Sterling-Ahlla from his list of creditors, neither of them was sent notice of his bankruptcy petition. Their counsel learned of Smith’s pending bankruptcy only weeks before his discharge and took no action at that time.
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2Cases cited48 opinions
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