Legal Opinion
Charbono v. Sumski (In Re Charbono)
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 15, 2015No. 14-2151PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal poses the question of whether a bankruptcy court has inherent power to sanction parties for noncompliance with court orders. We hold that it does — and we reject the debtor’s attempt to subsume this power within the bankruptcy court’s authority to punish for criminal contempt. After placing the sanction imposed by the bankruptcy court in perspective, we conclude that the district court did not err in upholding it.
I. BACKGROUND
Facing straitened circumstances, Kevin Charbono (the debtor) filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy…
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