Legal Opinion
In Re Gillespie
United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided February 14, 1990No. 18-17822PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DAVID A. SCHOLL, Bankruptcy Judge.
A. INTRODUCTION
The instant contested matter obliges us to revisit an issue which we previously addressed in In re Pinder, 83 B.R. 905, 908-12 (Bankr.E.D.Pa.1988); and In re Caster, 77 B.R. 8, 14 (Bankr.E.D.Pa.1987): the scope of 15 U.S.C. § 1612(b), a provision of the federal Truth-in-Lending Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1601, et seq. (hereinafter “TILA”), which exempts political subdivisions from monetary liability under the TILA. We conclude, consistently with Caster, that the exemption applies irrespective of whether the particular political subdivision has…
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