Filing a bankruptcy petition automatically halts efforts to collect pre-petition debts from the debtor outside of bankruptcy. This "automatic stay" is a command to halt.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is the host of
Your Democracy, a program dedicated to exploring how the Constitution holds up against the complexities of 21st century American life in ways the framers could not have foretold.
She is a Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). She teaches classes in Constitutional Law, Race and the Law, Evidence, and Gender and Justice. She taught in the Africana Studies Program at Vassar College prior to John Jay. She is a civil rights attorney who litigated cases for Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc.. She addresses audiences nationally and internationally. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall has spoken on issues of law and justice in France, Ghana, Rwanda, England, Wales, Canada, South Africa and before the United Nations in Geneva and New York City.
Teens Press Climate Cases in Courts Across the World
EUGENE, Oregon, January 25, 2021 (ENS) – Climate change is worsening by the year, threatening to make the planet unliveable for people now in their teens and early twenties. Because government actions are often at the root of climate warming, young Americans have taken the first legal steps in a youth climate movement to require the government to respect their right to a stable, healthy climate, encouraging similar actions globally.
Today, there are many youth climate cases before courts across the world in which young people are pressing their governments to take actions that will mitigate the effects of climate change.
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