In re Lavelle; Eastern District of New York Bk 09-72389-478 (Judge Eisenberg 11/19/09). Debtors on Long Island NY got the second mortgage on their house voided by a bankruptcy court as unsecured. The house was valued at $400,000 and the balance on the Bank of America...
United Student Aid Funds Inc. V. Francisco Espinoza United States Supreme Court case 08-1134 Oral arguments December 1, 2009 Can a student loan be discharged, even in part, in a Chapter 13 plan without a finding of "undue hardship"? More broadly, how final is a...
Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz v. United States United States Supreme Court docket 08-1119 and 08-1225 Oral arguments December 1, 2009 When the Bankruptcy Code was amended in 2005, "debt relief agencies" were forbidden to advise clients "to incur more debt in...