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· 6/13/2003

National City Bank v. Lapides (In Re Transcolor Corp.)

Citations

  • 296 B.R. 343
  • 2003 Bankr. LEXIS 799
  • 41 Bankr. Ct. Dec. (CRR) 174
  • 2003 WL 21666571

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that filing of adversary proceeding against debtors did not violate automatic stay and collecting cases
  • noting that § 541(a) “casts a wide net”
  • noting that § 541(a) “casts a wide net”
  • \[T]he [Bankruptcy] Code implicitly permits the filing of suit in the bankruptcy court against a debtor without violating the automatic stay.\
  • “Whether the automatic stay prevents the filing or maintenance of a cause of action outside the bankruptcy court depends upon whether the suit itself is property of the debtor or the debtor’s estate.”
  • referring to 11 U.S.C. §§ 301, 303

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: James F. Schneider

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