Coy Cox, Jr. v. Specialty Vehicle Solutions

HELENE N. WHITE, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Coy G. Cox, Jr. filed two successive personal-injury actions against Specialty Vehicle Solutions, LLC (“SVS”), which was in bankruptcy proceedings at the time. The district court dismissed the first suit as invalidly filed in violation of the bankruptcy automatic stay, and dismissed the second suit — filed after the bankruptcy court granted relief from the stay — as untimely under the applicable Kentucky statute of limitations. Because the district court considered only one of two possible grounds for validating an action taken in violation of the…