Legal Opinion
Spitz v. Tepfer (In Re Tepfer)
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided July 17, 2002No. 02 C 1442PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
BUCKLO, District Judge.
In this opinion I address whether a bankrupt’s creditors, who missed a deadline for filing an objection to the discharge-ability in bankruptcy of two large attorneys’ fee judgments they had won against the debtor, should nonetheless be able to avoid that discharge merely because the debtor had moved for relief from the automatic stay to prosecute his appeals from those judgments. I conclude that the creditors are out of luck.
Ronald Spitz and Arthur Tepfer owned equal shares of the Tepfer & Spitz, Ltd., 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan and Trust (“T…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- The Lexington Insurance Company v. Rugg & Knopp, Inc., and the Salt Lake City CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1999
- In the Matter of Malen A. Juzwiak, Debtor-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1996
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