Legal Opinion
Susan Brown v. Douglas Ellmann
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 20, 2017No. 16-1967PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
This appeal centers upon a bankruptcy court order denying Chapter 7 Debtor-Appellant, Susan G. Brown,'an exemption under 11 U.S.C. § 522 1 on the basis of the value of her state-law redemption rights in a piece of real property sold by Trustee-Appellee, Douglas Ellmann, on behalf of Brown’s bankruptcy estate. We AFFIRM the bankruptcy court’s denial of Brown’s proposed exemption because she lacked any equity in the property after the sale— that is, the property sold for substantially less than the value of the secured claims on the property.
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In 2014, Brown filed a…
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