Panel: Loan Servicer’s Bankruptcy Stay, Discharge Violations Were Harmless

Mealey's (April 6, 2023, 2:04 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — While a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals bankruptcy appellate panel (BAP) did not err in ruling that a mortgage loan servicer’s violation of a bankruptcy court’s automatic stay and discharge injunction was harmless, a debtor borrower is entitled to attorney fees incurred in prosecuting the stay, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled in affirming in part, reversing in part and remanding....