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Category Archives: Decisions Of Interest



In the case of Munoz v. Pipestone Financial, LLC, Civil No. 04-4142 (JNE/SRN) (D.Minn. 8/30/2007), the Plaintiff claimed that Pipestone Financial, LLC, and Messerli & Kramer, P.A., (collectively, Defendants) violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) by attempting to collect interest at an impermissible rate, misrepresenting their entitlement to attorney fees, and using envelopes […]



Many lawyers and debtors have asked over the years, “How small is too small?” In other words, what are the odds of a trustee seizing a vehicle with $500 of non-exempt equity?
In the past, the answer was clear-cut; in my home courts, a trustee usually wouldn’t bother with a small asset because it just […]



The latest installment of ABI podcast chats is available ABI World Web site. This edition of the ABI podcast features an interview by ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano with Prof. Todd J. Zywicki of the George Mason University School of Law about his perspectives on bankruptcy, including the relationship between medical debt and bankruptcy. The […]



Consumers are sued for credit card debts every day. In New York City alone, hundreds of these cases are filed each business day with every county’s civil courts.
Part of what I do is defend these cases. Why? Because so often the plaintiff is a debt buyer and the defendant, a consumer, in […]



The case of In re Lombardo, 2007 WL 1893206 (Bkrtcy.E.D.N.Y. 2007) involved a debtor who filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition listing as her major creditor her divorce lawyer. The debtor had executed a retainer agreement with the divorce lawyer that gave the lawyer a security interest in any equitable distribution to which the […]