Legal Opinion

Farrell v. Decew (In Re Farrell)

United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Connecticut

Decided April 17, 2003No. 19-00205Published

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER ON MOTION TO DISMISS

ALAN H. W. SHIFF, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff-debtor commenced this chapter 7 case on February 5, 1994. The trustee filed a May 6, 1994 report of no distribution, 1 and on August 18, 1994, the plaintiff received a discharge. On October 14,1994, the case was closed.

On April 9, 1995, the plaintiffs father died. On February 20, 2001 he moved to reopen his bankruptcy case. The motion was granted on January 24, 2002. On August 8, 2002, the plaintiff filed this adversary proceeding against the defendants for their alleged willful violation of the automatic stay and his…

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