· 5/9/1995
Leeds Building Products, Inc. v. Moore-Handley, Inc. (In Re Leeds Building Products, Inc.)
Citations
- 181 B.R. 1006
- 1995 Bankr. LEXIS 621
How courts have described this case
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- “Rule 9011, and likewise Rule 11, places no pre-filing duty upon a plaintiff to conduct an inquiry into possible affirmative defenses, except in those unusual or extreme circumstances where such a defense is obvious and needs no discovery to establish.”
- defense is obvious when it needs no discovery to establish
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Judges: W. Homer Drake, Jr.
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