United States Ninth Circuit

Chapter 7 debtor attorney did not violate the automatic stay provision of 11 USC 362 by collecting legal fees for post petition services in an amount a bankruptcy court would later find excessive if the attorney had no reason to know the court would so rule.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/13/2000
• Decided 03/05/2001
• Published 03/05/2001

Judges

• SCHROEDER, Chief Judge:, Before:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge;  NOONAN and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Harold Shilberg,Law Offices of Harold Shilberg, San Diego, California, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Don E. Bokovoy, Weintraub & Bokovoy, San Diego, California, for the appellee.