Given plaintiff's reliance upon the erroneous advice of his Maryland bankruptcy counsel as to the effect of the automatic stay provisions of the Bankruptcy Code (11 USC § 362 [a] [1]), as well as the other circumstances presented, it was an improvident exercise of discretion to deny plaintiff's request for a short continuance in the midst of trial and to dismiss the complaint, essentially on the ground of abandonment. Inasmuch as the matter is being remanded for a new...
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