United States First Circuit

Judgment that car financing company did not violate a chapter 7 discharge injunction by declining to discharge its lien on the debtors' automobile until they paid the remaining balance due on their pre-petition car loan is reversed where the facts of the case rendered the company's refusal to release its lien objectively coercive in violation of federal bankruptcy law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/01/2006
• Published 09/01/2006

Judges

• CYR, Senior Circuit Judge., Before LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, CYR, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James F. Molleur, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• F. Bruce Sleeper, with whom Jensen, Baird, Gardner & Henry, was on brief for appellee.