Brockington v. Citizens & Southern National Bank of South Carolina (In Re Brockington)

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that punitive damages of $500.00 were warranted for the willful violation of the automatic stay but noting that these damages were mitigated because the creditor voluntarily returned the vehicle to the debtor the day after it was repossessed
• finding a willful violation of the automatic stay when, at the time of repossession, the creditor had not yet received notice of the bankruptcy case but the debtors informed the creditor’s repossessing agent of their filing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).