Weissman v. Hassett

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a bankruptcy trustee was immune from liability for a report that he had prepared and distributed to the media because the dissemination served the important purpose of exposing fraud and preventing similar frauds
• holding that a bankruptcy trustee was immune from liability for a report that he had prepared and distributed to the media because the dissemination served the important purpose of exposing fraud and preventing similar frauds
• “trustees and receivers acting as officers of the court to conserve the bankrupt estate’s assets are immune from suit”
• “Even a remote prospect of personal liability ... could not help but lessen the vigor with which future reorganization trustees will pursue their obligations”
• a trustee has immunity from liability when acting “at the court's behest or under its supervision and subject to its orders.”
• reviewing bankruptcy trustee's duties under 11 U.S.C.A. § 1106

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).