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		<title>For the last time &#8230; you are a debt relief agency (get over it)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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From the Bankruptcy Litigation Blog written by my colleague Steve Jakubowski comes thsi observation regarding today&#8217;s Supreme Court decision in Milavetz, Gallop &#38; Milavetz, P.A., v. United States, No. 08-1119:

Back when bashing BAPCPA was in vogue I posited here that the BAPCPA&#8217;s &#8220;debt relief agency&#8221; provisions &#8220;look more like an effort to create a consumer bankruptcy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=illinoisbankruptcylawyerblog.com&blog=469859&post=1171&subd=dcbabk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer spending is up&#8230; but wait!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bureau of Economic Anaylsis reported today that consumer spending went up by 0.5% in January.
Hey, that&#8217;s good right?  We know that a large part of GDP &#8212; gross domestic product, basically the worth of a country&#8211;  is comprised of consumer expenditure.
But before we get all excited, the BEA also reports that personal income, on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=illinoisbankruptcylawyerblog.com&blog=469859&post=1165&subd=dcbabk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Miller v. LaSalle Bank (7th Cir.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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Amendment to Indiana recording statute applied to all mortgages, whenever filed. IC 32-21-4- 2(c) amends the Indiana recording act so that mortgages with certain technical defects are still considered to provide constructive notice. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the amended statute applied to all mortgages regardless of when they had filed. The statute&#8217;s use of the phrase &#8220;is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=illinoisbankruptcylawyerblog.com&blog=469859&post=1150&subd=dcbabk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Muzak Emerges from Chapter 11</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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On Monday Muzak Holdings LLC announced that it has completed its financial restructuring and has emerged from bankruptcy protection.The company, which provides background music programming is heard in stores, office buildings and on-hold phone systems, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware a year ago to refinance heavy debt. The Fort Mill, S.C., company said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=illinoisbankruptcylawyerblog.com&blog=469859&post=1111&subd=dcbabk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disproportionality Even in Bankruptcy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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An editorial by Rafia Khader, Law Clerk, M. Hedayat &#38; Associates, P.C.
Bankruptcy is a trying situation for any individual. But for women it seems as if the laws yet again disproportionately burden them. I came across an interview with Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren a while ago that was both shocking and predictable. In it she said that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=illinoisbankruptcylawyerblog.com&blog=469859&post=1081&subd=dcbabk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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