In the Matter of Margaret WILLIAMS, Debtor-Appellee, Appeal of CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY

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• upholding the bankruptcy court's modification of the automatic stay to permit an eviction action to proceed upon determining that the debtor no longer had any interest in the lease prior to her bankruptcy petition
• “[T]he bankruptcy court has discretion whether and to what extent it will grant relief from the stay, so our review is limited to whether the court abused that discretion.”
• “[T]he bankruptcy court has discretion whether and to what extent it will grant relief from the stay, so our review is limited to whether the court abused that discretion.”
• where the landlord has filed an FEDA action prior to bankruptcy, a bankruptcy court may properly allow the action to proceed in state court, since, unless the tenant had valid defenses to the action, “nothing in Illinois law would invalidate [the landlord’s] ending [the] lease”

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