In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a Chapter 7 debtor cannot discharge a debt based on money obtained by fraud even when the Chapter 7 debtor did not perpetrate the fraud. Bartenwerfer v. Buckley, No....more
In a recent unanimous decision, the United States Supreme Court made it more difficult to avoid a bankruptcy debtor discharging a debt tied to "defalcation while acting in a fiduciary capacity." In Bullock, the Court stated...more