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· 6/20/1996

Mary A. Buchanan and Gordon Buchanan, Jr. v. United States of America, Cross-Appellee

Citations

  • 87 F.3d 197
  • 78 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 5001
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 14952
  • 1996 WL 339809

How courts have described this case

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  • highlighting the potential for abuse “if nonbusiness loans could easily be written off to produce a 3 See, e.g., Discharged, Worthless, WEBSTER’S NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY 519, 2109 (2d ed. 1934); Worthless, Discharged, BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY (4th ed. 1951
  • a debt is not worthless merely because the debtor is insolvent

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Judges: Posner, Rovner, Evans

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