United States Seventh Circuit

A dispute in a bankruptcy case over which state's law should determine whether real property owned by debtor should be exempted from the bankruptcy estate is dismissed for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction where the district court's order ruling that Florida law applied and remanding to bankruptcy court, without deciding whether Florida law granted an exemption, was not a final order subject to appeal.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/11/2008
• Decided 08/19/2008
• Published 08/19/2008

Judges

• WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, KANNE, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lawrence D. Wechter (argued), Geneva, IL, for Trustee-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven B. Towbin (argued), Shaw, Gussis, Fishman, Glantz, Wolfson & Towbin, Chicago, IL, for Debtor-Appellee.