Bishop v. U.S. Bank/Firstar Bank, N.A. (In Re Bishop)

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• awarding $5,000 in damages for emotional distress that stemmed from the “serious threat of arrest.”
• awarding $6,306.84 in actual damages and $50,000 in punitive damages where creditor engaged in reprehensible conduct, including harassing the debtor and repossessing the vehicle post-petition with knowledge of the bankruptcy case
• “A stay violation is ‘willful’ if a creditor has knowledge of the bankruptcy filing and deliberately acts in such a way that violates the stay.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).