Circuit split is widening on whether inaction can be a violation of the automatic stay.
Where the courts are split for lack of specific statutory authority, Judge Robert Jones finds discretion to allow conversion from chapter 12 to chapter 11.
Already primed to rule on nonjudicial foreclosure, the Supreme Court might take cases involving contempt, the automatic stay and trademarks.
The addition of Section 362(b)(3) is held not to affect the ‘freeze rule’ with regard to lapsing security interests.