Doris Robinson, Debtor-Appellant v. Chicago Housing Authority, Movant-Appellee

How courts have described this case

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• holding that lease did not terminate in a legal sense unless and “until all the essential procedural steps have been taken and the tenant no longer has legal recourse to revive the lease.”
• noting that a lease is not considered to be expired for purposes of the Code by a judgment of possession where tenant has power to revive lease under applicable state law
• affirming order lifting stay to pursue eviction proceedings where “lease was not ‘unexpired’ and thus was not assumable”
• “[WJhere there is a viable possibility that the tenant could still take action to preserve the lease, the lease has not been terminated.”
• “At this fourth step in the eviction process a landlord has surely taken the steps requisite for termination.”
• under Illinois law, “a lease may not end until a judgment of possession has been entered”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).