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
Rameker v. Clark, Nos. 12-1241, 12-1255 (7th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: May 4, 2012
Description: Whether debtor may exempt inherited IRA under section 522(b)(3)(C).
Result: Judgment reversed, debtor lost (April 23, 2013); Petition for rehearing denied (May 21, 2013); Cert. granted No. 13-299 and judgment affirmed (June 12, 2014)
In re Taylor, No. 11-1879 (C.D. Cal.)
Type: Debtor’s brief
Date: February 7, 2012
Description: Whether Bankruptcy Court erred in dismissing chapter 13 case, sua sponte, after notice of conversion to chapter 7 had been filed.
Result: Judgment reversed and remanded (April 13, 2012)
Beaulieu v. Ragos, No. 11-31046 (5th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: March 27, 2012
Description: Whether social security income may be considered in good faith analysis or for purposes of confirming plan over objection of trustee.
Result: Judgment affirmed. Debtor won.
Keller v. Fisette (In re Fisette), No. 11-3119 (8th Cir.)
Type: Debtor’s brief
Date: December 8, 2011
Description: Lien stripping of wholly unsecured lien in chapter 20.
Result: Dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. September 12, 2012
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 Rolin, No. 11-40950 (D. Kan.)
Type: Amicus
Date: November 3, 2011
Description: Constitutionality of Kansas bankruptcy-specific exemption.
Result: Dismissed as moot; debtor won in companion case In re Westby, No. 11-40986, 2012 Bankr. LEXIS 1428, (Bankr. Kan. April 4, 2012)
DeHart v. Michael, No. 11-1992 (3d Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: October 25, 2011
Description: Whether creditors have a vested right to undistributed post-petition funds paid into confirmed chapter 13 plan prior to conversion to chapter 7.
Result: Judgment affirmed, October 26, 2012
In re Massey, No. 11-60 (B.A.P. 1st Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: October 18, 2011
Description: Whether debtor may claim exemption in the amount of 100% FMV.
Result: Judgment affirmed, February 27, 2012
Woolsey v. Citibank, No. 11-4014 (10th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: May 18, 2011
Description: Whether wholly unsecured lien may be stripped off in chapter 13 where court allowed modification but refused strip off.
Result: Judgment affirmed, September 4, 2012