In June 1997, the Supreme Court handed down Associates Commercial Corporation v. Rash. 1 Certiorari having been granted to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the issue of valuation in a chapter 13 cramdown, it was hoped that the cou…

Consumer creditors were dealt a favorable hand on the issue of lien "revival" or "revesting" in a recent decision authored by Judge Eugene R. Wedoff in In re Booth. 1 The issue presented in Booth is the effect of dismissal of a chapter 13 c…

It comes as no surprise that there has been a sense, mostly among members of Congress, that debtors who choose chapter 13 are more dedicated to repaying their creditors than those who choose chapter 7. Before enactment of the Bankruptcy Abu…

ABI's Consumer Bankruptcy Committee is co-chaired by Hon. Dennis R. Dow, Hon. Thomas F. Waldron, Dennis J. LeVine and Thomas J. Yerbich. Judge Dow was appointed a Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Missouri Circuit Court of Appeal…