Brad Walbeck v. The I'On Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a debt for fraud committed by a debtor’s business partner—fraud she herself had not committed but was also liable for—was nondischargeable under § 523(a)(2)(A)
• stating that Congress intended for the Bankruptcy Code to “strike[] a balance between the interests of insolvent debtors and their creditors”
• equating “plain and ordinary meaning” with what “an ordinary English speaker would understand [a] sentence to mean”
• “We have never used this principle to artificially narrow ordinary meaning, which is what Bartenwerfer asks us to do.”
• “We start where we always do: with the text of the statute.”
• “Partnerships and other businesses can also organize as limited-liability entities.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).