Lafayette v. Collins (In Re Withrow)

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing Rule 9011 imposes an obligation on debtor's attorneys to perform a reasonable investigation of the information contained in a debtor's bankruptcy schedules
• finding that an attorney’s alleged personal health issues and/or his client’s faulty memory “are not sufficient to overcome [his] sloppy and careless actions (or inactions)” in preparing the debtor’s documents for submission to the court
• stating an “order imposing [Bankruptcy] Rule 9011 sanctions is final when the matter out of which it arose becomes final”
• attorney had an \affirmative duty to conduct a reasonable inquiry into the facts set forth in the Debtor's schedules\
• both cases discussing the legislative history of newly added §§707(b)(4)(C) and (D)
• affirming sanction of $3,585.00 payment to the chapter 13 trustee

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).