Commercial Union Insurance v. Johns-Manville Corp. (In Re Johns-Manville Corp.)

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a declaratory judgment action by insurer seeking determination that it did not owe coverage to be subject to the automatic stay
• rejecting argument that an action for declaratory judgment against debtor is not stayed because of no impact on property of the debtor or bankruptcy estate
• denying stay relief for one of debtor’s fourteen insurers, reasoning that “it is preferable to resolve all these issues in a single forum; and that piecemeal adjudication of these issues in different forums would be counterproductive”
• action for declaratory relief against the debtor was subject to the automatic stay

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).