Posted by NCBRC - July 26th, 2013
Type: Amicus
Date: June 20, 2013
Description: Whether section 1325(b)(4)(B) created a minimum plan length of sixty months for above-median debtors, and whether the disposable income formula set forth by Congress and reflected on Form 22C could be abandoned if it was inconsistent with income and expenses as reflected on Schedules I and J.
Result: Affirmed March 28, 2014
Pliler NACBA amicus
Posted by NCBRC - February 25th, 2013
Type: Amicus
Date: January 23, 2013
Description: Whether applicable commitment period applies to above-median debtor with zero or negative projected disposable income.
Result: Judgment affirmed, August 29, 2013
Flores NACBA Amicus
Posted by NCBRC - November 26th, 2012
Type: Amicus brief
Date: November 20, 2012
Description: Whether Chapter 13 plan that bifurcates residential lien and pays secured portion outside plan and unsecured portion within plan must pay off entire mortgage within five years.
Result: Judgment affirmed, May 24, 2013, Case dismissed by First Circuit as interlocutory, No. 13-9009 (May 14, 2014); U.S. Supreme Court cert. granted No. 14-116 (Dec. 12, 2014)
Bullard NACBA amicus
Bullard BAP 1st Cir opinion
Posted by NCBRC - September 4th, 2011
Type: Amicus
Date: November 25, 2009
Description: Whether debtor with negative disposable income on Form 22C must file chapter 13 plan with 60 month applicable commitment period.
Result: Reversed and remanded. Debtor lost.
Tennyson NACBA Amicus 11th Cir
Tennyson 11th Cir opinion
Posted by NCBRC - September 3rd, 2011
Type: Amicus
Date: June 14, 2007
Description: Forward looking vs Mechanical approach to projected disposable income and applicable commitment period.
Result: Affirmed. Debtor won.
Kagenveama 9th Cir opinion
Kagenveama NACBA amicus 9th Cir
Posted by NCBRC - September 3rd, 2011
Type: Amicus
Date: January 8, 2008
Description: Whether applicable commitment period is multiplier or temporal requirement and whether disposable income is projected using schedules I and J.
Result: Reversed. Supreme Court petition denied March 23, 2009.
Frederickson 8th Cir opinion
Frederickson NACBA amicus 8th Cir