In Re Nipper’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 302 · 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 28 U.S.C. § 157
Relies on Porter v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Thorp Credit & Thrift Co. v. Pommerer (In Re Pommerer) · Augustine v. United States · In the Matter of Ronald and Marjorie Pattersons Appeal of Abbotsford State Bank · In Re Jerome Thomas Lafond
Most-quoted passages
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“1. Exemption laws are to be liberally construed in order to preserve the exemption. 2. The determination of whether personal property is a tool of the trade must be made on a case by case basis. 3. The debtor must demonstrate that he practiced a particular trade or occupation at the time of the filing of his bankruptcy petition or that he had engaged in the particular trade or occupation in the past and intended to resume it. 4. The debtor must demonstrate that the property that he seeks to exempt is reasonably necessary to the performance of his chosen trade or occupation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Aurelio
How this case has been treated — in progress
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