Vasile v. Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the counterclaims asserted against the Plaintiff/debtor will be stayed pending final determination of the bankruptcy petition.”
• counterclaims for costs and attorney fees that were asserted against debtor in action brought by debtor were stayed pending final determination of debtor’s bankruptcy petition
• “However, the stay only applies when the action is ‘against the debtor’. An action is ‘against the debtor’ if it was initiated against the debtor.” (citation omitted)
• “{m]ultiple claim[s] must be disaggregated so that... counterclaims . . . are treated independently when determining which of their respective proceedings are subject to the bankruptcy stay”
• a plaintiff cannot be completely foreclosed from any access to court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).