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Before Torruella, Lipez, and Thompson, Circuit Judges.

THOMPSON, Circuit Judge. Debtors Luis V_zquez Laboy and Carmen Garc_a Calder_n claim they were unconstitutionally deprived of a hearing on damages due to them as a result of the Appellees’ willful violation of the automatic stay in their bankruptcy case. Appellees Doral Mortgage Corporation – who set in motion the stay violation – and its former attorney-notaries at Canales Law Offices, Edgardo Canales Idrach and _ngel Rol_n Prado (collectively, Canales) – who actually carried out the acts that violated the stay – have mounted a broad counter-attack, fighting everything from our jurisdiction to the willfulness of the violation. All this avails them nothing, however. Avoiding the constitutional issue, we nevertheless find that the Debtors are entitled to present evidence, and we remand so they can do so.

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