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Resituating The Automatic Stay Within The Federal Common Law Of Bankruptcy, Daniel J. Sheffner
Resituating The Automatic Stay Within The Federal Common Law Of Bankruptcy, Daniel J. Sheffner
Daniel Sheffner
Many bankruptcy judges and practitioners make broad references to the equitable powers of bankruptcy courts. Bankruptcy courts, they exclaim, are “courts of equity” and so may do as “equity” requires. One often-cited source of bankruptcy courts’ apparently vast equitable and supplemental powers is § 105(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. Section 105(a) empowers bankruptcy courts to “issue any order, process, or judgment that is necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of” the Code. Section 105(a) has been cited as the basis for re-imposing the Bankruptcy Code’s automatic stay once the stay has been terminated or otherwise modified. The automatic …