Sanctions weren’t justified for attempting to collect a time-barred tax claim.

A creditor must attempt to stop a state court from violating the stay, the Sixth Circuit BAP holds.

The appeals court didn’t allow an ambiguous state statute to confer absolution for violating the automatic stay.

If a suit filed in violation of Barton ends up in bankruptcy court, must the judge still dismiss? The courts are split.

The Supreme Court is invited to resolve a circuit split and decide whether inaction can violate the automatic stay.

Bankruptcy needs blanket judicial immunity from the Federal Arbitration Act after the Supreme Court’s Schein decision.

Supreme Court has three bankruptcy cases this term, on nonjudicial foreclosure, trademark rejection, and contempt for a stay violation.

Ninth Circuit is the first court of appeals to expand a debtor’s appellate counsel fees beyond successfully defending an award for a willful stay violation.

In the first opinion at the circuit level, the First Circuit latches onto the lousy drafting of Section 362(c)(3)(A) to end the automatic stay entirely, 30 days after the second filing within a year.

The government doesn’t violate the automatic stay by refusing to reinstate a driver’s license suspended for failure to pay traffic fines, Judge Surratt-States says.