KLINGMAN v. LEVINSON

No. 88-2437.

877 F.2d 1357 (1989)

Francine KLINGMAN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Melvin E. LEVINSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 28, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin E. Levinson, Wilmette, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Lionel I. Brazen, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WOOD, Jr., and MANION, Circuit Judges, and FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.


FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.

The question posed in this appeal is whether the bankruptcy judge had authority to enter an order correcting (or amending, depending on one's viewpoint) a judgment it had earlier entered in the same case, a judgment more than a year and a half old which had been affirmed by the district court and court of appeals.

The roots of this case go back almost twenty years. In 1970, Francine Klingman sued Melvin Levinson, a lawyer,...

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