Thompson v. United States Department of Interior

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a creditor, believing that its debt was excepted from discharge, took a “calculated risk” in attempting to collect such debt and that the creditor subsequently “lost [its] bet”
• “in general, punitive damages are not an appropriate remedy for § 105(a) contempt proceedings, [but] relatively mild noncompensatory fines may be acceptable in some circumstances”
• collection costs due the third-party collectors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).