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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INS. CORP. v. ELEFANT

Nos. 85-2991, 85-3102.

790 F.2d 661 (1986)

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, as receiver of United of America Bank, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rabbi Mordecai ELEFANT, et al., Defendants. ITRI Torah Research Institute and Erwin Weiner, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 16, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew B. Kagan, Chicago, Ill., Richard Parker, Richard Parker & Assoc., Houston, Tex., for appellants.

Paul J. Richter, DeHaan & Richter, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before FLAUM, EASTERBROOK and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

A simple action to collect a debt has produced a host of problems, all jurisdictional. We must decide whether this court has jurisdiction; having done this, we must decide whether the district court ever did, or could, have jurisdiction.

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In 1983 the ITRI Torah Research Institute borrowed $114,770 from the United of America Bank. ITRI gave the Bank a note and a mortgage on a 38-foot sports fishing boat. The Dean of ITRI...

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