In Re Blount’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
July 1983
most recently cited
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 506 · 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 523 · 11 U.S.C. § 524 · 11 U.S.C. § 722
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“guarantees that debtors may repay a portion or all of a discharged debt in a voluntary situation, without any fear of reaffirming the whole of the debt and being subject to the same court process that resort to the bankruptcy laws was designed to prevent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has been expanded over a comparable provision in Bankruptcy Act § 14f to cover any act to collect, such as dunning by telephone or letter, or indirectly through friends, relatives, or employers, harassment, threats of repossession, and the like.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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