A recent Second Circuit decision found that a mortgage lender violated the automatic stay by proceeding with a foreclosure action sale of real property after a tenant at the property filed for bankruptcy.
The court's ruling that the automatic stay was violated was premised on the fact that the tenant was a named defendant in the mortgage lender's foreclosure action. The Second Circuit advised that the lender should have sought relief from the automatic stay in connection with the lender's foreclosure action.
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