Lena M. James
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How Judge James decides
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Cautions
A debtor's failure to provide accurate notice, communicate promptly, and mitigate avoidable damages weighed against sanctions for a technical stay violation.
“Overall, the record leaves the impression of an opportunistic debtor creating the conditions for a technical violation of the stay and then seizing upon the creditor’s misstep to pursue manufactured damages akin to those discussed in Preston.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“Therefore, for the foregoing reasons, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Debtor’s Amended Motion for Sanctions against Weidl Properties LLC is DENIED.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
All eight sampled matters were terminated. Seven streams supplied 24 express motion outcomes, while one supplied no separately classifiable disposition.
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