Legal Opinion
Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P.A. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 4, 2008No. 07-2405PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P.A., a law firm that practices bankruptcy law, the firm’s president, a bankruptcy attorney within the firm, and two clients1 who sought bankruptcy advice from the firm brought suit against the United States seeking a declaratory judgment that certain provisions of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) — 11 U.S.C. §§ 526(a)(4) and 528(a)(4) and (b)(2) — did not apply to attorneys and law firms and are unconstitutional as applied to attorneys. The district court granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs…
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