Type: Amicus
Date: March 10, 2014
Description: Whether single payment annuity funded by rolled over IRA is exempt under section 522.
Result: Judgment affirmed, February 13, 2015.
Clark v. Rameker, No. 13-299 (USSCt.)
Type: Amicus
Date: January 17, 2014
Description: Inherited IRA exemption
Result: Judgment Affirmed July 14, 2014
In reDiClemente, No. 12-3336 (3rd Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: August 7, 2013
Description: Whether lien is included in calculation of unsecured debt under section 109(e) where debtor’s personal liability was discharged in prior chapter 7.
Result: Appeal Dismissed as Moot, November 27, 2013
Viegelahn v. Harris, No. 13-50374 (5th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: August 20, 2013
Description: Whether undistributed post-petition wages belong to the debtor upon conversion from chapter 13 to chapter 7.
Result: Reversed and Remanded, July 7, 2014 – Appeal to USSCt. No. 14-400
Traverse v. DeGiacomo, No. 13-9002 (1st Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: July 10, 2013
Description: Whether trustee steps into shoes of debtor upon avoidance of lien and can sell debtor’s residential property.
Result: Judgment reversed and remanded, May 23, 2014
Pliler v. Browning, No. 13-1445 (4th Cir.)
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
In re Abdul-Rahim, No. 12-3448 (8th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: April 3, 2013
Description: Whether an unliquidated personal injury claim may be exempted in bankruptcy.
Result: Judgment Affirmed July 12, 2013
Danielson v. Flores (In re Flores), No. 11-55452 (9th Cir.)
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
Williamson v. Westby (In re Westby), No. 12-27 (B.A.P. 10th Cir.)
Type: Debtor’s brief
Date: June 18, 2013
Description: Constitutionality of bankruptcy-specific exemption
Result: Judgment affirmed, debtor won. Trustee filed notice of appeal to 10th Cir. No. 13-3044
In re Reeves, No. 12-2127 (4th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: January 21, 2013
Description: Whether chapter 7 trustee has power to sell fully encumbered residential property under section 724(b) to satisfy “carve-out” agreement with tax creditor.
Result: Judgment affirmed, November 20, 2013