Legal Opinion
Taggart v. Lorenzen
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 3, 2019No. 18-489PublishedCited by 494 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breyer
*1799 At the conclusion of a bankruptcy proceeding, a bankruptcy court typically enters an order releasing the debtor from liability for most prebankruptcy debts. This order, known as a discharge order, bars creditors from attempting to collect any debt covered by the order. See 11 U.S.C. § 524 (a)(2). The question presented here concerns the criteria for determining when a court may hold a creditor in civil contempt for attempting to collect a debt that a discharge order has immunized from collection.
The Bankruptcy Court, in holding the creditors here in civil contempt, applied a standard that it…
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