Legal Opinion
Richard D. Price, Jr., Formerly Doing Business as Richard D. Price, Jr. & Associates, Limited v. James M. Rochford, Kirk A. Holman, Jack C. Vieley
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 8, 1991No. 90-1179PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
Between September 1987 and August 1988 Richard Price filed for bankruptcy three times. With increasing alacrity, the bankruptcy court dismissed each petition. In February 1989, five months after his last petition was dismissed, Price brought suit in federal district court against the creditors who proceeded against him in state court while one or another of the bankruptcies was pending.
Most of the defendants, Price claims, willfully violated the provisions of the automatic stay, 11 U.S.C. § 362 (1988), while he was in bankruptcy. This entitles him, he claims, to damages…
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