First National Bank of Rocky Mount v. Duncan (In Re Duncan)

How courts have described this case

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

• holding debtor’s voluntary dismissal must be in response to the motion for relief from stay filing
• “Absent a causal relationship, there is no abuse to curb and no purpose to be served by keeping the former debtor out of bankruptcy for 180 days.”
• “a natural and common understanding of the word ‘following’ includes a suggestion that there is some causal relationship between the thing coming before and the thing coming after.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).