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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Law - "11th-hour filers use Web"
"11th-hour filers use Web: New bankruptcy law triggers deadline dash" is the headline to this story by Maureen Hayden in today's Evansville Courier&Press. It begins:
Linda Parker heard stories about lawyers working day and night to beat the deadline before the new, tougher bankruptcy rules took effect, so when she woke up in the wee hours Sunday morning, she got online to see if the tales were true.At 3 a.m. Sunday, when she accessed the online docket of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Evansville, she found she wasn't the only one awake. Parker, the deputy clerk in charge of the Evansville office, saw the number of electronic filings for personal bankruptcy rise right before her eyes. * * *
In 2004, Parker's office handled 2,677 filings for personal bankruptcy. As of late Sunday - the last day to file under the old rules - the number of personal bankruptcy filings for 2005 had already soared to 3,692.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 18, 2005 07:34 AM
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