In re Johnson

Jeffrey P. Hopkins, United States Bankruptcy Judge

This matter is back before the bankruptcy court after nearly two years of protracted litigation in state court. The present case falls between the interstices of state and federal court jurisdiction. This occasionally happens when, as here, an order by a bankruptcy court is entered which modifies, annuls, and outright terminates the automatic stay under 11 U.S.C. § 362(d). As in this case, stay relief orders are very often entered so that a state court can liquidate causes of action by converting them into liability, or in bankruptcy parlance,…