From the Editor – Automatic Stay

By The Honorable William Houston Brown (Retired)

Multiple filings not cause for in rem relief. The fact that the debtor had filed multiple cases, maybe 16 over a number of years, without proof that those filings were part of a scheme to delay, hinder or defraud creditors as to specific property, did not support in rem stay relief. In re Gray, ___Fed.Appx. ___, 2014 WL 889355 (3d Cir. March 7, 2014).

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The Honorable William Houston Brown retired in 2006 as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, and . . .

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