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· 8/9/2004

In Re Edwin M. Maughan, Sr., Debtor. John P. Nardei v. Edwin M. Maughan, Sr.

Citations

  • 340 F.3d 337

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in using its equitable powers to allow a creditor’s complaint, which was filed after the deadline set forth in Bankruptcy Rule 4004, to go forward
  • equitable tolling applied to deadline, and complaint allowed three days late, where debtor failed to comply with court order to turn over documentation
  • “[t]he rule is a statute of limitation—or simply a deadline—that is generally subject to the defenses of waiver, estoppel, and equitable tolling”

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Judges: Merritt, Batchelder, Duplantier

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