Warner v. L L’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
March 2007
most recently cited
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Grogan v. Garner · Brown III v. Felsen · Cohen v. De La Cruz · Foley & Lardner v. Biondo · United States v. Spicer
Most-quoted passages
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“We decline to follow (the novation) approach, however, because in our view it improperly elevates legal form over sub stance. We cannot agree with a rule under which, through the alchemy of a settlement agreement, a fraudulent debtor may transform himself into a nonfraudulent one, and thereby immunize himself from the strictures of § 523(a)(2)(A). The weight of recent authority rejects (the novation) approach because it is contrary to the public policy embodied in § 523(a)(2)(A) of preventing fraudulent debtors from escaping their obligations at the expense of innocent defrauded creditors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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