Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. v. Colortran, Inc. (In Re Colortran, Inc.)

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• “A creditor who fails to return the estate’s property after it knows of the debtor’s bankruptcy is subject to sanction for willful violation of the automatic stay”
• willful stay violation where freight forwarder claiming lien refused to deliver possession of shipment to requesting chapter 11 debtor-in-possession, even though court had not yet formally ordered turnover under § 542

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).