Legal Opinion
Whitaker v. Lockert (In Re Whitaker)
United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Tennessee
Decided January 14, 1982No. Bankruptcy No. 380-02309, Adv. No. 381-0239PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
GEORGE C. PAINE, II, Bankruptcy Judge.
The issues before the court are whether this court should enjoin a creditor and district attorney general for the State of Tennessee from criminally prosecuting a debtor under Tennessee’s bad check law and whether the creditor should be held in contempt for his actions with appropriate sanctions. After consideration of the transcript of the hearing of this matter on June 4, 1981, affidavits submitted at that hearing, stipulations, exhibits, briefs of the parties and the entire record, this court finds such action is both necessary and…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Younger v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Local Loan Co. v. HuntSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Perez v. LedesmaSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Kugler v. HelfantSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Pellegrino v. Division of Criminal Justice (In Re Pellegrino)United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Connecticut · 1984
- Arizona v. Magnifico (In Re Magnifico)United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Arizona · 1982
- Brown v. Shriver (In Re Brown)United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Tennessee · 1984
- Brinkman v. City of Edina (In Re Brinkman)United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Minnesota · 1991
- Gilliam v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville (In Re Gilliam)United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Tennessee · 1986
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