Type: Amicus
Date: December 18, 2012
Description: Constitutionality of state bankruptcy-specific exemption statute
Result: Judgment affirmed, August 16, 2013
In re Hudson, No. 12-1297 (D. Kan.)
Type: Amicus
Date: December 12, 2012
Issue: Constitutionality of Kansas’s bankruptcy-specific exemption statute.
Result: Judgment affirmed, August 16, 2013
In re Henson, No. 11-16019 (9th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: December 12, 2012
Issue: Whether trustee has the power to require debtor to turnover property no longer in debtor’s possession.
Result: Reversed and remanded, No. 11-16019 (9th Cir. Jan. 9, 2014)
In re Bullard, No. 12-54 (B.A.P. 1st Cir.)
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)
Drummond v. Welsh, No. 12-60009 (9th Cir.)
Type: Amicus brief
Date: October 11, 2012
Description: Whether social security income is included in “projected disposable income.”
Result: Judgment affirmed March 25, 2013 – debtor won
In re Mort Ranta, No. 12-2017 (4th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: October 16, 2012
Description: Whether social security income is included in projected disposable income.
Result: Vacated and remanded, July 1, 2013
Weber v. SEFCU, No. 12-1632 (2d Cir.)
Type: amicus
Date: September 5, 2012
Description: Whether creditor has affirmative duty under section 542 to turn over repossessed collateral to estate upon learning of bankruptcy filing.
Result: Judgment affirmed, May 8, 2013
St. Anne’s Credit Union v. Ackell, No. 12-10720 (D. Mass.)
Type: Debtor’s brief
Date: July 13, 2012
Description: Whether, when debtor files a bankruptcy petition within one year of dismissal, the automatic stay lapses after 30 days only as to the debtor and not as to the property of the estate under section 362(c)(3)(A).
Result: Judgment reversed and remanded, March 21, 2013
Williamson v. Westby, No. 12-27 (B.A.P. 10th Cir.)
Type: Debtor’s Brief
Date: June 17, 2012
Description: Whether state bankruptcy-only exemption statute is constitutional under the Bankruptcy and Supremacy Clauses.
Result: Judgment affirmed, February 4, 2013, appeal to 10th Cir, No. 13-3044 dismissed March 29, 2013
Westby Debtor Brief
Anderson v. Cranmer, No. 12-4002 (10th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: June 12, 2012
Description: Whether social security income should be excluded from calculation of projected disposable income.
Result: Judgment affirmed, October 24, 2012