In Re Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1990
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Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Byrd v. Alton · Francis v. Riso (In Re Riso) · Osborn v. Ricketts (In Re Ricketts) · In Re Eliscu · Board of County Commissioners v. Coleman American Properties, Inc. (In Re American Properties, Inc.)
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“Where the court file shows a certificate of mailing and a complaining party submits an affidavit declaring notice was not received, the weight of the evidence favors the court’s certificate. As stated in Ricketts : If a party were permitted to defeat the presumption of receipt of notice resulting from the certificate of mailing by a simple affidavit to the contrary, the scheme of deadlines and bar dates would come unraveled. 80 B.R. at 497 . For this reason, an allegation that no notice was received does not, by itself, rebut the presumption of proper notice. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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