From Casetext: Smarter Legal Research

In re Baren

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division
Dec 27, 1984
48 B.R. 752 (N.D. Ill. 1984)

Opinion

No. 84 B 3891. Adv. No. 84 A 499.

December 27, 1984.


MEMORANDUM ORDER


This Court has received and agrees with the thoughtful analysis in the December 21, 1984 memorandum opinion and order (the "Opinion") by Bankruptcy Judge John Schwartz. 47 B.R. 39. Only two additional comments are in order:

1. Even were the removals of the state cases to this District Court governed by 28 U.S.C. § 1452 (part of the Bankruptcy Amendments and Federal Judgeship Act of 1984), this Court would remand the cases on the identical equitable grounds identified by Judge Schwartz (see Opinion at 7-8). Though this Court (unlike the Bankruptcy Court) would not suffer from the same "core proceedings" disability identified in the Opinion at 8-9, it makes eminently good sense for the state courts — steeped as they are in the merits of those cases — to continue to judgment.
2. If the state cases were to be viewed as subject to abstention concepts under the 1984 Act, this Court would approve and concur in Judge Schwartz's initial determination that discretionary abstention should be granted (Opinion at 10). If only out of an abundance of caution, it hereby confirms such approval and concurrence.

Accordingly, if and to the extent this Court is required to act on the remand issue, it in fact remands Case Nos. 82 L 3966, 82 L 4731 and 82 L 8105 to the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.


Summaries of

In re Baren

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division
Dec 27, 1984
48 B.R. 752 (N.D. Ill. 1984)
Case details for

In re Baren

Case Details

Full title:In re Bernard BAREN, Debtor. Bernard BAREN, Plaintiff, v. DEVON BANK, et…

Court:United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division

Date published: Dec 27, 1984

Citations

48 B.R. 752 (N.D. Ill. 1984)

Citing Cases

Thomasson v. Amsouth Bank, N.A.

Browning v. Navarro, 743 F.2d 1069, 1076 n. 21 (5th Cir. 1984), construing the first sentence of repealed 28…

Allen County Bank Trust Co. v. Valvmatic Intern., (N.D.Ind. 1985)

Before the court could base a decision on equitable grounds, it would have to possess jurisdiction over the…