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Hanging On To Till: Interpretations Of Bapcpa's Hanging Paragraph, Kaitlin A. Bridges
Hanging On To Till: Interpretations Of Bapcpa's Hanging Paragraph, Kaitlin A. Bridges
Missouri Law Review
Bankruptcy law has significantly changed in the last two years due to the enactment of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act ("BAPCPA"). An already complex and challenging area of law, bankruptcy has become even more so, as debtors and creditors begin to question how their rights have changed. For courts, one of the most perplexing issues is whether the standards and interpretations that were established in preBAPCPA bankruptcy cases are still applicable today. As courts have examined the potential effects of the new legislation, different opinions have emerged, leaving even more uncertainty for interested parties. One of the …
Our Federalism Changes Course: The Supreme Court Limits State Sovereign Immunity In Bankruptcy Actions, Benjamin C. Hassebrock
Our Federalism Changes Course: The Supreme Court Limits State Sovereign Immunity In Bankruptcy Actions, Benjamin C. Hassebrock
Missouri Law Review
Although sovereign immunity jurisprudence is not the most highly publicized topic of debate in the mainstream media, it has recently become a major source of contention on the Supreme Court. The flurry of sovereign immunity litigation that has reached the high court in the last decade has yielded mostly 5-4 decisions that have expanded the state's ability to assert immunity as a defense. Given this trend, few could have predicted the outcome of the court's decision in Central Virginia Community College v. Katz. In Katz, the 5-4 decision broke the other direction, and the court held that states had waived …