Legal Opinion
Seltzer v. Cochrane (In re Seltzer)
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 23, 1996No. 95-16102PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SKOPIL, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether the retroactive application of a Nevada statute allowing debtors to exempt Individual Retirement Accounts from bankruptcy violates the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution. Both the bankruptcy court and the district court concluded that although the statute impaired private contract rights, the impairment was justified to achieve a valid public purpose. We agree and affirm.
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Kenneth and Sharon Seltzer (debtors) filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition in December 1992, listing debts exceeding $600,000. Relying on Nev.Rev.Stat. §…
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