Green Point Credit, LLC v. McLean (In Re McLean)

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that bankruptcy court had authority to hold creditor in contempt for violating discharge injunction
• holding that “bankruptcy courts generally have authority to award compensatory sanctions for emotional distress caused by a violation of the discharge injunction”
• holding that emotional distress damages are compensable for discharge injunction violations because such damages are available “in the materially similar context of a violation of the automatic stay”
• requiring that the creditor “was aware of the discharge injunction and intended the action that violated it” in order to impose sanctions
• requiring that the creditor “was aware of the discharge injunction and intended the action that violated it[.]” in order to impose sanctions
• requiring that the creditor “was aware of the discharge injunction and intended the action that violated it” in order to impose sanctions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).