Mwangi v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (In Re Mwangi)
United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DUNN, Bankruptcy Judge.
As part of its standard, national procedures, each night Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (“Wells Fargo”) runs a computerized comparison of all newly filed Chapter 7 1 bankruptcy cases against its list of account holders. Upon discovering that Appellants had filed a chapter 7 petition, Wells Fargo “froze” Appellants’ accounts and sent a letter to the chapter 7 trustee, seeking instructions as to disbursement of the funds. No directions were forthcoming from the trustee. The debtors, claiming 75% of the funds in the accounts exempt, demanded that Wells Fargo release funds…
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