Dumace Leonard LeGrand

FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

3 In re: DUMACE LEONARD LEGRAND, ) Case No. 19-21198-C-7 ) Debtor. ) Dkt. Control No. SJT-1 ________________________________) 6 OPINION Before: Christopher M. Klein, Bankruptcy Judge _________________ 9 Susan J. Turner, River City Law, Sacramento, CA, for Debtor 10 Laura McCarthy Hoalst, Winn Law Group, Fullerton, CA, for Respondents Cavalry Portfolio Services, Cavalry SPV-1, LLC, & Winn Law Group _______________ 12 CHRISTOPHER M. KLEIN, Bankruptcy Judge: “No fair ground of doubt as to whether the [bankruptcy discharge] order barred the creditor’s conduct” warrants civil contempt says the Supreme Court. Taggart v. Lorenzen, 139 S.Ct. 1795 (2019). This is such a case. Although civil contempt for discharge violations is warranted, the automatic stay remedy under 11 U.S.C. § 362(k)(1) applies because the series of offending wage garnishments began before discharge at the behest of debt collectors who had no 22 …