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New Cases For the Week of June 10, 2002 - June
14, 2002
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June
13, 2002
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Holding
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In
re Middlesex Power Equipment & Marine, Inc.
(DBN Subscription Required) |
1st Cir. |
The
bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in declining to
reopen a bankruptcy case to adjudicate a property tax payment
dispute related to the purchase of the subject property from a
Chapter 7 estate. The bankruptcy court did not have
exclusive jurisdiction over such a dispute and acted within
its discretion in abstaining in favor of a State tribunal. |
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June
12, 2002
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Holding
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In
re Kalter
(DBN Subscription Required) |
11th Cir. |
A
creditor who repossesses a car from a Florida debtor shortly
before the debtor's bankruptcy filing is not required to
return the vehicle to the debtor after the bankruptcy filing,
since the repossession divested the debtor's of ownership
interests in the vehicle thereby precluding the the debtor
from asserting that the debtor was exercising control over
property of the debtor in violation of the automatic stay. |
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