Spartan Mills v. Bank of America Illinois

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• noting that “this is not the case where [the creditor] was caught by surprise because of a lack of due process notice”
• Holding that Spartan Mills could not now litigate issues relating to its lien as “Spartan Mills apparently determined that it would litigate its claim at a different time and in a different court. But in doing so, it left standing final orders that adjudicated its lien claim.”
• application of Celotex principle barring collateral attack depends on “bankruptcy court ... jurisdiction over [the debtor] and its assets”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).