Camelia Builders, Inc. v. Fidelity Mortgage Investors

How later courts describe this case

• $20,000 fine upheld against counsel for contractors who instituted state-court suit to foreclose mechanics’ liens with knowledge that bankruptcy petition had been filed
• “The stay insures that the debtor’s affairs will be centralized, initially, in a single forum in order to prevent conflicting judgments from different courts and in order to harmonize all of the creditors’ interests with one another.”