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Brief For Amici Curiae Law Professors In Support Of Petitioners, In Re Jevic (Czyzewski V. Jevic Holding Corp.), Melissa B. Jacoby, Jonathan C. Lipson

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Question Presented:

Whether a bankruptcy court may approve a contested settlement agreement that distributes assets in violation of the Bankruptcy Code’s statutory priority rules and that departs from long-held absolute priority principles underlying the American bankruptcy system.

Randomly Distributed Trial Court Justice: A Case Study And Siren From The Consumer Bankruptcy World, Gary G. Neustadter

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Between February 24, 2010 and April 23, 2012, Heritage Pacific Financial, L.L.C. (“Heritage”), a debt buyer, mass produced and filed 218 essentially identical adversary proceedings in California bankruptcy courts against makers of promissory notes who had filed Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy petitions. Each complaint alleged Heritage's acquisition of the notes in the secondary market and alleged the outstanding obligations on the notes to be nondischargeable under the Bankruptcy Code’s fraud exception to the bankruptcy discharge. The notes evidenced loans to California residents, made in 2005 and 2006, which helped finance the purchase, refinancing, or improvement of California residential …

Regulating The Moneychangers, Jerry W. Markham

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