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Good morning, Your Honors.

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Eric Ben-Somicon on behalf of Appellee Maria Montero.

[00:00:22] Speaker 02:
Okay.

[00:00:23] Speaker 02:
Good morning.

[00:00:23] Speaker 02:
Well, you brought all that wonderful stuff.

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I don't know if you're going to need much of it.

[00:00:27] Speaker 02:
We don't have the appellant today.

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We don't know why, but we don't have the appellant, so you can proceed as you like.

[00:00:33] Speaker 00:
I essentially believe the matters are mooted at this point.

[00:00:38] Speaker 00:
The property was sold several months ago.

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As ordered by Judge Brand, the proceeds of the sale have been held in trust until further order at the court.

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The appeal as to the broker's employment, I think, is moot as well, not just because the property is already sold, but the broker was vetted by Judge Brand at the trial court level.

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He went through extensive questioning and cross-examination, also by the appellant who is not here.

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I don't see, of course, I'm a little biased being on the side of it, but I don't see any judicial error in any way, shape, or form.

[00:01:10] Speaker 02:
Or any genuine good faith argument, rather.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And that's it.

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Otherwise, I'll submit on the papers.

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I mean, to the extent they've been filed.

[00:01:19] Speaker 01:
And the only other issue was the one on the stay violation.

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And there's no dispute that he committed an act.

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Whether it was effective or not is important.

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It was an act.

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He did it.

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He knew the state was in effect.

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He did it anyway.

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A hundred percent.

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And, sorry, even further, the sanction order was never appealed as well.

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And that's already final and, of course, hasn't been satisfied to this day.

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But that sort of goes contrary to the idea that there was judicial error, but the sanction somehow was not appealed.

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And yes, recording all this penance post-petition.

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on property of the estate is an absolute violation.

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I'm actually just for the record, just in case there's any question.

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So with that, if the judges have any questions for me, I'm happy to answer.

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Otherwise.

[00:02:07] Speaker 02:
I will ask my colleagues if they have any further questions.

[00:02:09] Speaker 02:
None for me.

[00:02:09] Speaker 00:
None.

[00:02:09] Speaker 00:
Thank you very much.

[00:02:10] Speaker 02:
Thank you.

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Sorry I got to lug that box around.

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Sorry.

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Thank you.

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OK, let's go back up to the top.