Mendez v. Salven (In Re Mendez)

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “strict compliance with the credit counseling requirements of § 109(h) can be waived by a debtor”
• holding that the debtor’s 11 ineligibility under § 109(h) does not deprive the bankruptcy 12 court of subject matter jurisdiction
• holding that the debtor’s 11 ineligibility under § 109(h) does not deprive the bankruptcy 12 court of subject matter jurisdiction
• finding that the debtor waived the argument of ineligibility because he pursued and acquired § 109(h)(3) extension from the court and filed the motion to dismiss the day before exemption objection hearing regarding his house
• “We review the bankruptcy court’s decision whether or not to dismiss a chapter 7 case for ‘cause’ for abuse of discretion.”
• § 109 eligibility is not jurisdictional

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).