In Re Pawlowicz

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “a good faith belief by the creditor that it had the right to take the action which violated the stay will not insulate the act from meeting the definition of 'willful' ”
• following lodestar method in awarding attorney’s fees under former § 362(h)
• “The term ‘appropriate circumstances’ is not defined but has generally been held to require egregious misconduct on the creditor’s part such as that which is taken in arrogant defiance of federal law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).