Legal Opinion
Universal Bank N.A. v. Rocco (In Re Rocco)
United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided September 30, 1999No. 19-10792PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DAVID A. SCHOLL, Chief Judge.
A INTRODUCTION
Before this court is a motion (“the Motion”) of counsel for the Debtors seeking attorneys’ fees and costs, pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 523(d), against a credit card issuer which, on the day of trial, voluntarily dismissed an action seeking to have the indebtedness of one of the Debtors to it declared non-dischargeable under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A). Finding it necessary, in light of our experience that debtors’ counsel are too quick to compromise such actions, to reiterate that the creditor’s burden of proving that a § 523(a)(2) action is…
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Universal Bank, N.A. v. Weiler (In Re Weiler)United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 2000