Matter of Alessi

OPINION AND ORDER

RICHARD L. MERRICK, Bankruptcy Judge.

This cause arose on a motion of Carmen and Cora Alessi that the Illinois Racing Board be held in contempt of this Court for denying an application for license to race horses to Carmen Alessi after a joint petition for relief under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code had been filed on January 7, 1981. The argument is that the automatic stay provisions of Section 362 prevent the taking of action adverse to a debtor.

Alessi had been racing horses under a temporary license which he sought to have made permanent. On February 10, 1981 the Stewards…