UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN 

SOUTHERN DIVISION 

CHARLES J. TAUNT, Trustee, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

BERNARD GLIEBERMAN, et al., 

 

 Defendants. 

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Case No. 14-14488 

Paul D. Borman 

United States District Judge 

ORDER CONTINUING STAY PREVIOUSLY STIPULATED TO BY 

PARTIES IN THIS CASE 

On May 4, 2017, Plaintiff BR North 223, LLC (“BR North”) was replaced as 

the plaintiff in this District Court fraudulent transfer action by Charles J. Taunt, the 

appointed trustee in Defendant Bernard Glieberman’s bankruptcy filing, E.D. Mich. 

Bankr. Case No. 15-15596. (ECF No. 51.) Shortly thereafter, Bankruptcy Trustee 

Taunt represented that a compromise had been reached between Trustee Taunt and 

two other Defendants in this action—Lonie Glieberman and Lindsey Bobay—

regarding certain claims asserted in this lawsuit against those two Defendants 

regarding the Black Bear entity. On May 22, 2017, the parties stipulated to stay this 

fraudulent transfer action pending the Bankruptcy Court’s approval of that proposed 

Black Bear compromise. (ECF No. 54.) 

The Bankruptcy Court entered an order approving the proposed compromise 

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on August 23, 2017. (ECF No. 424.) BR North, Glieberman’s main creditor, filed 

an appeal of the Bankruptcy Court’s compromise order with this Court the following 

day. (See E.D. Mich. Case No. 17-12796, ECF No. 1.) BR North filed parallel 

motions both in that appeal and in this action (the underlying fraudulent transfer 

lawsuit). In both motions, BR North requested that the May 22, 2017 stay in this 

action remain in effect, and that the Court therefore refrain from dismissing 

Defendants Lonie Glieberman and Lindsey Bobay from this case, until this Court 

resolved the appeal from the Bankruptcy Court. (See ECF No. 56; E.D. Mich. Case 

No. 17-12796, ECF No. 3.) 

After holding a hearing on the appeal on October 11, 2017, this Court entered 

an Opinion and Order remanding the Black Bear proposed compromise issue to the 

Bankruptcy Court after determining that the Bankruptcy Court had erred in refusing 

to allow BR North to discover documents that Trustee Taunt and the two Defendants 

used in reaching the compromise. This Court’s remand directed the Bankruptcy 

Court to provide BR North the discovery that it had requested and then hear 

reargument on the Black Bear compromise proposal. (E.D. Mich. Case No. 17-

12796, ECF No. 14.) 

The May 22, 2017 stay in this case was intended to pause the action while the 

Bankruptcy Court evaluated the proposed compromise. As those proceedings are 

still ongoing, the stipulated stay in this case remains in effect. Thus, the motion that 

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BR North filed in this District Court fraudulent transfer action to further stay the 

Black Bear compromise proposal in this fraudulent transfer action pending the 

outcome of the Bankruptcy Court appeal (ECF No. 56) is denied as redundant given 

the continuing prior stipulated stay in this case. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

 s/Paul D. Borman 

 Paul D. Borman 

 United States District Judge 

Dated: October 17, 2017 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

 The undersigned certifies that a copy of the foregoing order was served upon 

each attorney or party of record herein by electronic means or first class U.S. mail 

on October 17, 2017. 

 s/D. Tofil 

 Deborah Tofil, Case Manager 

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