Type: Debtor’s Brief
Date: June 17, 2012
Description: Whether state bankruptcy-only exemption statute is constitutional under the Bankruptcy and Supremacy Clauses.
Result: Judgment affirmed, February 4, 2013, appeal to 10th Cir, No. 13-3044 dismissed March 29, 2013
Westby Debtor Brief
In re Rolin, No. 11-40950 (D. Kan.)
Type: Amicus
Date: November 3, 2011
Description: Constitutionality of Kansas bankruptcy-specific exemption.
Result: Dismissed as moot; debtor won in companion case In re Westby, No. 11-40986, 2012 Bankr. LEXIS 1428, (Bankr. Kan. April 4, 2012)
In re Schafer, No. 10-8030 (B.A.P. 6th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: July 22, 2010
Description: Constitutionality of Michigan’s Bankruptcy specific exemption scheme.
Results: Reversed. Debtor lost.
In re Hersh, No. 07-10226 (5th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: September 26, 2007
Description: Whether sections 526(a)(4) and 527, related to debt relief agencies, are unconstitutional.
Result: Affirmed in part, reversed in part. Debtor lost.
Tennessee Student Assistance Corp. v. Hood, No. 02-1606 (USSCt)
In re Schafer, No. 11-1340 (6th Cir.)
Type: Amicus
Date: June 28, 2011
Description: Whether Michigan’s exemptions, which are available only to bankruptcy debtors, violate the Bankruptcy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Result: Affirmed Aug. 20, 2012