In Re Heard’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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1. ““(9) the debtor has been granted a discharge under section 1328 of this title, or under section 660 or 661 of the Bankruptcy Act, in a case commenced within six years before the date of the filing of the petition, unless payments under the plan in such case totaled at least— (A) 100 percent of the allowed unsecured claims in such case; or (B)(i) 70 percent of such claims; and (ii) the plan was proposed by the debtor in good faith, and was the debtor’s best effort;”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Celeste

2. “"it certainly imposes a legal duty of performance more demanding than mere competence or due diligence. In the view of economists, it means maximizing the contractual benefits of the person to whom the duty is owed, even if the benefits to the one owing the duty have been depleted. Said a slightly different way, if the duty of best effort is owed, it must be performed even at a loss."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. FIRST NAT. BANK OF LAKE PARK v. Gay

3. “If the ancient admonition de minimis non curat lex retains its vitality, we will intone it one further time. To propose to this Court that there is a distinction between a Chapter 7 liquidation plan and a Chapter 13 “one percent plan” is to propose a distinction without a difference, which is an intellectual artifice....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Georgia Railroad Bank & Trust Co. v. Kull (In Re Kull)