Type: Amicus
Date: April 3, 2013
Description: Whether an unliquidated personal injury claim may be exempted in bankruptcy.
Result: Judgment Affirmed July 12, 2013
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In re Abdul-Rahim, No. 12-3448 (8th Cir.)
Posted by NCBRC - April 21st, 2013
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Danielson v. Flores (In re Flores), No. 11-55452 (9th Cir.)
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 -
Williamson v. Westby (In re Westby), No. 12-27 (B.A.P. 10th Cir.)
Posted by NCBRC - February 23rd, 2013
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.)
Posted by NCBRC - January 22nd, 2013
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 -
In re Lea, No. 12-1298 (D. Kan)
Posted by NCBRC - December 27th, 2012
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.)
Posted by NCBRC - December 14th, 2012
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.)
Posted by NCBRC - December 14th, 2012
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.)
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) -
Drummond v. Welsh, No. 12-60009 (9th Cir.)
Posted by NCBRC - November 26th, 2012
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.)
Posted by NCBRC - October 17th, 2012
Type: Amicus
Date: October 16, 2012
Description: Whether social security income is included in projected disposable income.
Result: Vacated and remanded, July 1, 2013
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