McKeen v. Federal Deposit Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that proceedings instituted against debtor or agreements made with debtors in violation of the automatic stay in bankruptcy proceedings are void — being a legal nullity of no effect
• “Filing a notice of levy and advertising the property for sale are actions that are clearly stayed during the pendency of a bankruptcy.”
• “While this Court is not bound by decisions of the Eleventh Circuit construing federal law, they are persuasive.”
• ‘Albany stated that the general rule in the Eleventh Circuit is that [actions in violation of the automatic stay in bankruptcy cases] are void ab initio, but the stay may be annulled at the discretion of the [bankruptcy] court, particularly where there are issues of bad faith”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).