Ninth Circuit Affirms the BAP on the Outer Limits of the Discharge Injunction
Deducting a discharged loan to a child from her inheritance didn’t violate the discharge injunction.
No Duty to Release an Attachment After Fulton, Ninth Circuit BAP Says
The BAP decision may have a hint that failure to stop proceedings after bankruptcy can be an automatic stay violation, even after Fulton.
Merely ‘Technical’ Stay Violations Don’t Obviate Section 362(k) Sanctions, BAP Says
Even when the debtors are not parties to the suit, the stay is violated when a creditor pursues an action to collect a debt owing by the debtors, so says the Ninth Circuit BAP.
Disastrous Litigation Strategy Didn’t Justify Stay Modification, Eleventh Circuit Says
Stay modification is required even if the creditor wants to intervene in state court to help the bankrupt estate.