Hough v. Fry (In Re Hough)

How courts have described this case

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

• hinting that the poorly written exception to discharge under section 523(a)(7) amounts to “legislative malpractice”
• noting that we not only look to the language of the statute itself, but also to “the specific context in which that language is used, and the broader context of the statute as a whole”
• relying on various statutory rules of interpretation and on where the amending language was located in the original statute
• reversing a bankruptcy court's holding, In re Hough, 228 B.R. 264 (Bankr.D.Idaho 1998)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).