United States Seventh Circuit

In a bankruptcy action involving a university and its former student, district court's judgment ordering plaintiff to provide a transcript and pay damages and attorneys' fees is affirmed where defendant had a state-law right to receive a certified copy of her transcript, and plaintiff's refusal to honor that right until defendant paid her back tuition constituted an act to collect her unpaid pre-petition debt, thereby violating the automatic stay and discharge injunction against plaintiff.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/28/2008
• Decided 04/16/2009
• Published 04/16/2009

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and RIPPLE and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas L. Shriner, Jr., Attorney (argue), Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, WI, for Appellant., Tara A. Twomey, Attorney, Carmel, CA, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patricia K. Hammel, Attorney (argued), Herrick, Kasdorf, Dymzarov & Vetzner, Madison, WI, for Debtor-Appellee.