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Milavetz – Supreme Court Holds Once and For All … We Are Debt Relief Agencies
US Supreme Court on Justice Holmes' 169th B-day Holds in Milavetz that the Bankruptcy Code's Speech Restrictions on Attorneys Do Not Turn Them into Ruthless Drones
Back in the good old days when bashing BAPCPA was in vogue, I posited here that BAPCPA's "debt relief agency" provisions "look more like an effort to create a consumer bankruptcy lawyer clone who, much like the ever-multiplying Agent Smith from The Matrix-Reloaded, speaks and does precisely as directed with ruthless efficiency." Today's unanimous opinion from Justice Sonia Sotomayor (with concurrences from Justices Scalia and Thomas) tells us not to worry because while attorneys in fact are "debt relief agents" under the Code, §526(a)(4) "prohibits a debt relief agency only from advising a debtor to incur more debt when the impelling reason for the advice is the anticipation of bankruptcy." Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P.A., v. United States, No. 08-1119 (Op. at 13).
As with most bankruptcy decisions from the Supreme Court, the path taken to the holding is more interesting than the actual holding itself. This post examines two aspects of that road:
08
03 2010
Latest iPad Commercial
If you say you don’t want one youre a liar.
Sent from my iPhone
08
03 2010
Feedly for the iPhone
24
02 2010
New home sales hit record low in January – San Jose Mercury News
By Martin Crutsinger of the Associated Press
WASHINGTON — According to the Commerce Department's report on Wednesday, sales of new homes plunged to a record low in January; underscoring formidable challenges facing the housing industry as it recovers from the worst slump in decades. New-home sales dropped 11.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 309,000 units, the lowest level on record. In fact it fell to the lowest in nearly a half century. And the drop was a surprise to economists who were expecting a slight increase over December's pace. While winter storms were partly to blame, sales have fallen for 3 consecutive months despite sweeping and often heavy-handed government support.
24
02 2010
My beautiful wife
Can’t I do better than him?
20
02 2010
Facebook Chat Now Available Everywhere
Why is FB chat available everywhere? Why now? Because …
- Social networking groupies can’t get enough Facebook.
- Facebook is the voice of a generation (according to its PR)
- Generation Y users of Facebook are funky-fresh like that.
But mostly because Google Buzz came out yesterday …
(and Facebook is really scared).
