Federal Case

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that it is a well-established principle that the automatic stay generally only stays an action against a “debtor”
• finding section 362(a) applied to deficiency judgment action where debtor as guarantor was secondarily liable to non-debtor defendant already shown to be insolvent
• extending an automatic stay to a non-debtor in a Chapter 7 proceeding while noting that extending the stay to non-debtors assists in the debtor’s reorganization efforts
• extending the automatic stay to nonbankrupt codefendants where “there is such identity between the debtor and 7 For similar reasons, the Bankruptcy Court determined (and such determination was uncontested
• “Although the scope of the automatic stay is broad, the clear language of section 362(a
• “[T]he debtor should not be ‘burdened by [collateral] litigation and resulting legal fees ....’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).