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Pliler v. Stearns’s Empirical Analysis

747 F.3d 260 · 2014

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
April 2025
most recently cited

1 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1305 · 11 U.S.C. § 1321 · 11 U.S.C. § 1325 · 11 U.S.C. § 1329

Relies on Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research v. United States · Hamilton v. Lanning · Ransom v. FIA Card Services, N. A. · Hamilton v. Lanning · Maney v. Kagenveama

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “reasonable and necessary.” As the Fourth Circuit pointed out in Pliler v. Stearns, 747 F.3d 260, 267 (4th Cir.2014) ”[w]e do not doubt a bankruptcy court’s ability to consider Schedule I, Schedule J, or other pertinent evidence to capture 'known or virtually certain’ changes to disposable income: After all, the Supreme Court itself did so in Hamilton v. Lanning, 560 U.S. 505, 508 , 130 S.Ct. 2464 , 177 L.Ed.2d 23 (2010).””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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