Privitera v. Curran

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

In this bankruptcy appeal, the parties ask us to resolve an issue that has divided our sister circuits: whether the phrase “statement ... respecting the debtor’s ... financial condition,” as used in 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(B), should be interpreted narrowly to refer only to those documents that speak directly to the debt- or’s overall financial condition or broadly to include those documents that merely reference a single asset or liability. Compare, e.g., Bandi v. Becnel (In re Bandi), 683 F.3d 671, 676 (5th Cir. 2012), and Cadwell v. Joelson (In re Joelson), 427 F.3d 700,…