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· 9/19/1997

In Re Dinova

Citations

  • 212 B.R. 437
  • 1997 WL 595284

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that the chapter 7 trustee’s filing of a misleading application with the bankruptcy court was a breach of his duty as an attorney and officer of the court
  • recognizing in a chapter 7 case that the court can raise issues of trustee misrepresentation and concealment sua sponte to “address a breach of professional ethics, to protect the integrity of the judicial process, or where the interest of justice requires.”
  • finding notice and an opportunity for a hearing to be 27 adequate only when provided after a debtor’s deficiency
  • debt- or's failure to attend one or more 341 meetings may or may not constitute cause
  • “Dismissal for cause under section 707(a) is not limited to the three examples enumerated within the section.”
  • “Dismissal of a Chapter 7 case, whether voluntarily or involuntarily as to the debtor, implicates all those considerations affecting both the debtor and creditors which are at the heart of the Bankruptcy Code .... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Ninfo, Gallet, and Hardin, Bankruptcy Judges

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