Case No. 02-11945.United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Indiana, Fort Wayne Division.
July 15, 2005
DECISION AND ORDER
ROBERT GRANT, Bankruptcy Judge
At Fort Wayne, Indiana, on July 15, 2005.
Debtor’s motion for reinstatement filed on July 12, 2005, is DENIED due to the failure to submit a brief or any materials in support thereof as required by the local rules of this court. See, N.D. Ind.L.B.R. B-7007-1; B-9023-1. The need for such a brief is particularly critical in this instance where the debtor’s case was dismissed almost 18 months ago, by the court’s order of February 24, 2004, and that order has since been affirmed on appeal. Under these circumstances, the debtor should provide the court with some type of reasonably specific argument outlining the authority for and the propriety of the request to essentially vacate the order dismissing this case. To simply intone a reference to the court’s equitable powers under § 105 and its ability to reopen cases under § 350(b) (a provision of the Bankruptcy Code which has no applicability to dismissed cases, Matter of Garcia, 115 B.R. 169 (Bankr. N.D. Ind. 1990)) is not sufficient.
SO ORDERED.
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