Soares v. Brockton Credit Union

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that debtors who act in bad faith “create situations that are ripe for retroactive relief.”
• holding that parties’ errors can be evaluated when deciding whether to accord stay relief
• noting that automatic stay is designed to afford debtors “breathing room” free from creditor “harassment”
• noting that ministerial acts, even if undertaken in a state judicial proceeding subsequent to a bankruptcy filing, do not fall within the proscription to the automatic stay
• suggesting that the debtor’s bad faith is a relevant consideration in determining requests for retroactive stay relief
• noting that date on which creditor asks state court to act is material on issue of good faith

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).