Legal Opinion
Fleet National Bank v. Gray
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 12, 2004No. 03-1613PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.
This appeal from diverging decisions of the bankruptcy and district courts involves a cautionary tale about the dangers of ignoring the “automatic stay” that takes effect upon the filing of a bankruptcy petition. All would have been routine had Fleet National Bank (“Fleet”) declined to avail itself of certain postpetition payments tendered to it by its bankrupt borrower Bankvest Capital Corp. (“Bankvest”). But having accepted those payments, Fleet, pursued by its adversaries, found itself in something of a legal labyrinth. While we have yet to receive…
2Cases cited46 opinions
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