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
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
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 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)
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
Chappell v. Klein, No. 07-35704 (9th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: March 12, 2008
Description: Whether value attributable to appreciation in home is property of the estate where the property was claimed as fully exempt and no objection received.
Result: Affirmed. Debtor lost.
Mullen v. Hamlin, No. 11-1083 (B.A.P. 9th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: May 20, 2011
Description: Whether inherited IRA is exempt from bankruptcy estate.
Result: Judgment affirmed, February 21, 2012
Hamlin NACBA amicus 9th BAP
Gold v. Lewis, No. 09-1777 (6th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: April 9, 2010
Description: Whether Ford buy-out plan is exempt under section 522(d)(11)(E)
Result: Affirmed. Debtor won.
In re Schafer, No. 10-8030 (B.A.P. 6th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: July 22, 2010
Description: Constitutionality of Michigan’s Bankruptcy specific exemption scheme.
Results: Reversed. Debtor lost.