Rijos v. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya (In Re Rijos)

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the “computer did it” defense to a willful violation of stay action is not viable
• “Nothing in the Bankruptcy Code or Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure suggests that such a duty [to mitigate] exists.”
• debt-ors’ request for sanctions for willful violations of the automatic stay, brought by motions against dual creditors, satisfied the requirements of Fed. R. Bankr.P. 9013 and 7008
• creditor violated the automatic stay by sending two credit card statements even though the statements were issued accidentally by the computer while a new software was being installed
• “the ‘computer did it’ defense is not viable”
• “[T]he ‘computer did it’ defense is not viable[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).