Willis v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• resolving statutory uncertainty in favor of a “result ... [which is] primarily a pragmatic one — one that ... is most readily capable of use”
• defendant's sudden departure from area where drug-laden plane had arrived, without adequate explanation, sufficient to support reasonable suspicion
• statement in order that district judge made de novo review of record and all objections to magistrate’s findings and recommendations was sufficient.
• probable cause to arrest defendant for possession of contraband on plane came from pilot of plane who displayed defendant's motel room key
• mortgage defaults may be cured in chapter 13 even after judgment of foreclosure provided no sale has occurred
• stay does not toll running of statutory period for redeeming real estate sold at foreclosure sale
• provision of Bankruptcy Code governing bankruptcy court’s general equitable powers, § 105(a), does not empower bankruptcy court to issue stay orders tolling statutory redemption period
• § 362(a) does “not toll or extend the running of state statutory periods of redemption following foreclosure sales.”