Beal Bank SSB v. Brown (In Re Brown)

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• holding that if the time of the constructive filing and the time of the formal filing are different, the time of the constructive filing is dispositive in determining when a bankruptcy filing has occurred
• holding that a complaint is constructively filed when it is first placed in the custody or possession of the clerk, and the time of constructive filing controls if different from formal filing
• finding that the filing took place when the Debtor first handed the petition to the clerk, not when Debtor subsequently scanned it into the electronic filing system
• Code § 301 is “singularly unhelpful” in determining the precise timing of a petition

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