Okamoto owed money to Hornblower & Weeks-Hemphill, Noyes (a law firm and hereafter Hornblower). Hornblower filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against Okamoto, who moved to dismiss the petition on the ground that he had more than 12 creditors and the petition could not be filed by only one creditor. Hornblower replied that the other creditors’ claims were too small to count and, therefore, the petition could be filed by one creditor. Decide.

[In re Okamoto, 491 F2d 496 (9th Cir)]

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