In Re Rennels

MEMORANDUM OPINION

MERRITT S. DEITZ, Jr., Bankruptcy Judge.

The likely effect of our opinion today will be to reduce by more than eighty per cent the number of discharge hearings in the Western District of Kentucky. Because we deal with a statute which apparently would deny that outcome, the result can obtain only with a lengthened reach of creative interpretation. To the extent that our exercise departs from what could be called a tradition of strict constructionism in this district, we will move with measured pace, using only the standard juristic tools of statutory construction; legislative…