Penn Terra Ltd. v. Department of Envtl. Resources

ELR Citation: ELR 20475
No(s). 83-5448 (3d Cir. Apr 30, 1984)

The court rules that the automatic stay provision of the federal Bankruptcy Code does not prevent the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources (DER) from compelling a debtor to correct violations of state surface mining laws. The court notes that the policy behind the automatic stay is to ...