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IN RE SMITH

No. 08-3358.

582 F.3d 767 (2009)

In re Bruce S. SMITH, M.D., Debtor. Trina Tidwell and Sandra Sterling-Ahlla, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Bruce S. Smith, M.D., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 23, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven H. Jesser, Attorney (argued), Northfield, IL, for Debtor.

Darryl L. Robinson, Attorney (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before ROVNER and EVANS, Circuit Judges, and VAN BOKKELEN, District Judge.

ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

When defendant-appellant Dr. Bruce S. Smith filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition in September 2005, he failed to include appellees Trina Tidwell and Sandra Sterling-Ahlla on his schedule of creditors holding unsecured, nonpriority claims. Tidwell and Sterling-Ahlla had sued Smith in state court for sexual assault. Because Smith omitted Tidwell and Sterling-Ahlla from his list of creditors, neither of them was sent notice of his bankruptcy petition...

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