McMullen v. Sevigny (In Re McMullen)

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a board's proceedings to revoke an unscrupulous real estate broker's license constituted actions taken to benefit the public welfare
• distinguishing proceedings to protect the public in the future from those that \seek recompense for [] alleged financial losses\
• finding “[a]bsent [notice of the bankruptcy] on the part of a creditor, however, the violation is merely ‘technical,’ and no damages are to be awarded”
• Normally, however, a creditor that commits a technical violation of the automatic stay, due to lack of notice, has an affirmative duty to remedy the violation as soon as practicable after acquiring actual notice of the stay.
• noting, as proper, narrow construction of § 362(b)(4)
• cataloguing cases of joint willful violations

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