In Re Farness

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• finding that bankruptcy petition preparer engaged in unauthorized practice of law but denying injunctive relief because the United States Trustee did not seek an injunction, which would have required an adversary proceeding
• although evidence may have supported fines in approximately 700 cases, court elected to impose fine only with respect to single case in which relief was requested
• Section 110 serves the important purpose of protecting prospective debtors from abusive conduct by non-attorney bankruptcy petition preparers
• “[T]he statute’s main purpose is to protect consumers from abuses by non-lawyer petition preparers.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).