Cann v. Hayman

How courts have described this case

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• allowing exemption in “wall art” under New Mexico’s exemption for “furniture” where there was no evidence that art was used for any purpose other than debtor’s personal use in decorating his home
• “The Bankruptcy Code does not confer any general, equitable power in the bankruptcy court to deny a debtor’s exemptions based on bad-faith conduct.”
• \The starting point for interpreting a statute's meaning is the language of the statute itself.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).