In re Hudson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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1. ““Congress would scarcely have provided that a debt or liability created by a given state of facts should be a ground for objecting to a discharge, and at the same time have excepted the debt so created from the discharge when granted. It is manifest that these two provisions, if so construed, would be inconsistent, because, if an obligation so created was excepted from the discharge when granted, it could hardly be a ground for objecting to the granting of the discharge, which would not cancel or release such debt or liability.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Powell