Bank of America, N.A, Successor to LaSalle Bank, National Association, a national banking association v. First Mutual Bancorp of Illinois, Inc. et al

Filing 415

MEMORANDUM Signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on 4/14/2011:Mailed notice(srn, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., etc.,

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Plaintiff and
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Counterdefendant,
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v.
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FIRST MUTUAL BANCORP OF
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ILLINOIS, INC., et al.,
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Defendants and
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Counterplaintiffs. )
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BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., etc.,
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Plaintiff and
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Counterdefendant,
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v.
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PETHINAIDU VELUCHAMY, et al.,
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Defendants and
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Counterplaintiffs. )

No.

09 C 5108

No.

09 C 5109

MEMORANDUM
On April 12, 2011 this Court received in chambers, delivered
here by the United States Postal Service, a plain white envelope
addressed to this Court but reflecting no identification of the
sender or any return address, and having attached to it an excess
amount of postage that did not appear to be stamped as having
been cancelled.1

That envelope contained a one-page unsigned

letter dated April 7 and a number of attachments:

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Despite that absence of cancellation, there is no
question that the document arrived through the mails and not by
personal delivery.

1.

Case Information Summary for Case No. 2010-L-013628

from the Circuit Court of Cook County;
2.

Case Information Summary for Case No. 2010-L-013627

from the Circuit Court of Cook County; and
3.

a replica of this Court’s three page memorandum

opinion and order dated February 1, 2011, the first page of
which also contained a typewritten “Doc. 254” in the upper
right-hand corner and a typewritten “Dockets.Justia.com” in
the lower right-hand corner, both of which notations had not
been part of the original opinion.
To avoid any problems of this Court having received and read
an ex-parte communication, even from an unidentified source, this
Court immediately caused its minute clerk to arrange for counsel
for the parties to appear in court at 8:30 a.m. April 13.
counsel in the case appeared:

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Vincent Connolly, Esq. on behalf

of plaintiffs, Thomas McQueen, Esq. and Robert Cheifetz, Esq. on
behalf of defendants and Terence Banich, Esq. on behalf of
intervenors.

This Court delivered a copy of the letter and its

attachments to each counsel and is causing each of those
documents to be filed of record in both lawsuits along with this
memorandum.
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Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge
Date:

April 14, 2011

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