Legal Opinion
Robert E. Disch v. Faye F. Rasmussen
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 9, 2005No. 03-3363PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
While many observers have touted Congress’s recent amendments to the Bankruptcy Code as a major overhaul of the law in this area, the changes leave intact one primary purpose of the Code: to provide only honest debtors with relief. Under that standard, Faye Rasmussen should not have received a discharge of her debts, but the bankruptcy court initially ordered one. Later, the court revoked the discharge on grounds that Rasmussen contests. We hold that the bankruptcy court was authorized to take the action that it did, and we therefore affirm.
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In January 2000, Rasmussen, the…
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