Legal Opinion
Richardson v. Schafer (In Re Schafer)
Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 24, 2011No. BAP 10-8030, 10-8031PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED OPINION
MARCI B. McIVOR, Bankruptcy Judge.
This is a consolidated appeal of two individual Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases involving two unrelated debtors, Steven M. Schafer and Dorothy Ann Jones. In these consolidated appeals, the Chapter 7 Trustees, Thomas C. Richardson and Thomas R. Tibbie, appeal the bankruptcy court’s orders denying the Trustees’ motions objecting to the Debtors’ claim of exemptions under 11 U.S.C. § 522. The bankruptcy court held that Michigan’s bankruptcy-specific exemption statute (Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.5451) is constitutional under the Supremacy Clause of the…
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