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Justices narrow bankruptcy relief from debts incurred by fraud

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Bartenwerfer also relied on neighboring provisions of Section 523(a)(2), in which it is clear that the debtor’s own malfeasance is required for any limitation of the discharge. Barrett’s last major point discusses an 1885 Supreme Court decision ( Strang v.

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

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It would be “bizarre,” she contends, for the liability under subparagraph (A) to leave a debtor unable to discharge a debt incurred through the fraud of another when the parallel provision for fraudulent financial statements clearly is limited to the debtor’s own malfeasance.

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

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In its petition, Great Lakes claims that choice of law under federal admiralty has been utter chaos since a 1955 Supreme Court decision , made tolerable only by strict enforcement of choice-of-law clauses. It argues that the 3rd Circuit’s decision has thrown all of that into upheaval and must be reviewed.