Type: Amicus
Date: April 10, 2020
Description: Whether section 1129(b)(2)(B)(ii) requires debtors to offer new value for exempt property.
Result: Pending.
In re Woodward, No. 15-6001 (B.A.P. 8th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: May 12, 2015
Description: Whether absolute priority rule applies to individuals in chapter 11
Result: Judgment reversed and remanded, August 13, 2015
In re Stephens, No. 11-6309 (10th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: May 21, 2012
Description: Whether absolute priority rule applies to individual debtors in chapter 11.
Result: Judgment reversed and remanded, January 15, 2013
Stephens 10th Cir NACBA amicus
In re Maharaj, No. 11-1747 (4th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: November 21, 2011
Description: Applicability of absolute priority rule to individual debtor in chapter 11.
Result: Judgment affirmed (June 14, 2012)
In re Stephens, No. 11-29 (B.A.P. 10th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: August 22, 2011
Description: Application of absolute priority rule to individual chapter 11 debtors.
Result: Certified for direct appeal to Tenth Circuit, October 7, 2011
In re Friedman, No. 11-1149 (B.A.P. 9th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: June 21, 2011
Description: Application of absolute priority rule in individual chapter 11 case.
Result: Reversed and remanded, March 19, 2012