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  Interesting statistic:  a litigant has a 1% or less chance of convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to review his, her or its burning legal issue that all other appellate courts have rejected, dismissed or pooh-poohed.  Don’t believe me? Look here:  http://dailywrit.com/2013/01/likelihood-of-a-petition-being-granted/    As of today (December 15, 2014), the U.S. Supreme Court has accepted

What Has Gone Before     Back in April, I posted about the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari on an unpublished order of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, in which the 11th Circuit followed a previous unpublished decision that allowed wholly unsecured liens to be “stripped off” in Chapter 7, using 11 U.S.C. §§506(a)

Law v. Siegel  (U.S. Supreme Court opinion March 4, 2014)Exemptions Safe From Bankruptcy Court’s “Adjustment”Kevin C. McGee, Esq.PartnerSeder & Chandler, LLPWorcester, MA            On March 4, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Law v. Siegel, on an appeal from the Ninth Circuit. The facts were that the Chapter 7