Legal Opinion
In re Meltzer
United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided August 25, 2015No. 13 B 31151PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
A. Benjamin Goldgar, United States Bankruptcy Judge
Howard Leventhal uses the federal courts to make war on people who sue him or his ex-wife, Malgorzata Kubiak, in the state courts. Sometimes, he does this as retaliation. Sometimes, he does it to buy time. Sometimes, he does it to exert pressure. Whatever the motive, Leventhal’s tactic is to “make a federal case” out of everything, turning mundane state court matters into federal litigation, something he believes (wrongly, most of the time) will intimidate his opponents and make them back off.
Leventhal employs two main…
2Cases cited69 opinions
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