United States Ninth Circuit

A debtor may recover damages for emotional distress under 11 U.S.C. section 362(h) when a creditor violates the automatic stay that follows from the filing of a bankruptcy petition.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/10/2004
• Decided 12/10/2004
• Published 12/10/2004

Judges

• GRABER, Circuit Judge., Before: HALL and GRABER, Circuit Judges, and WEINER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• A. Charles Dell'Ario, Oakland, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• William G. Malcolm, Malcolm Cisneros, Irvine, CA, for the defendant-appellee.