· 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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