A bungled house sale, a bankrupt couple, and a statutory puzzle involving debts incurred through fraud
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 3, 2022
Bartenwerfer points first to the court’s articulation of a clear-statement rule, under which the exceptions to discharge are narrowly limited to those that are “plainly expressed” in the statute. Turning from the literal text to the broader statutory context, Bartenwerfer emphasizes the next subparagraph of the statute.
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