Steiner v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, No. 19-6027 (8th Cir. 2020)
Annotate this CaseThe Bankruptcy Appellate Panel affirmed the bankruptcy court's orders dismissing debtors' individual chapter 13 cases with a bar to re-filing for 180 days. The panel held that the bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion where debtors acted in bad faith. In this case, debtors have filed eight chapter 13 bankruptcy petitions between 2010 and 2018, and the bankruptcy court found that debtors' filings were part of a long-running scheme to manipulate and abuse the Bankruptcy Code and the bankruptcy system to the extreme detriment of their creditors, particularly Wilmington Savings.
Court Description: [Shodeen, Author, with Saladino, Chief Judge, and Shodeen, Bankruptcy Judge] Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. Orders dismissing debtors' individual chapter 13 cases with a bar to refiling affirmed; debtors' conduct constituted bad faith and the bankruptcy court's ruling was not an abuse of its discretion. [ March 20, 2020 ]
Some case metadata and case summaries were written with the help of AI, which can produce inaccuracies. You should read the full case before relying on it for legal research purposes.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.