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A bungled house sale, a bankrupt couple, and a statutory puzzle involving debts incurred through fraud

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Dissatisfied with the purchase, Buckley eventually obtained a judgment in a California state court based on the failure of the Bartenwerfers to disclose information about the house on the standard-form Transfer Disclosure Statement. The statute refers to the discharge of “any” debt obtained by “fraud.”

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Another separation-of-powers case, press access to trials, and maritime insurance

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Three terms ago in Seila Law v. But the court declined to invalidate the entire agency for this structural flaw, instead severing the for-cause provision from the rest of its authorizing statute. LLC involves how to determine the law to be applied under federal admiralty law in a maritime contract case.