EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge: The Bankruptcy Code’s automatic stay is designed to ensure the orderly distribution of assets by temporarily protecting the property of the debtor’s estate from the reach of creditors. A willful violation of the stay occurs when a creditor, with knowledge of the stay, seizes the debtor’s property without first obtaining relief from the stay from…
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