Legal Opinion
Couture v. Burlington Housing Authority (In Re Couture)
District Court, D. Vermont
Decided July 27, 1998No. 2:97-cv-00127PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SESSIONS, District Judge.
Derek Milo Couture and Veronica Lee Whalon (the “Coutures” or the “Debtors”) appeal from an order of the Bankruptcy Court of the District of Vermont (Conrad, J.) entered December 3, 1996, lifting the automatic stay provisions of the Bankruptcy Code to allow Burlington Housing Authority (“BHA”) to evict the Coutures. For the reasons that follow, the Bankruptcy Court’s decision is reversed and BHA is ordered to make public housing available to the Cou-tures.
I. Factual Background
The Coutures filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy petitions on March 27, 1996. 1 At…
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