Michael D. Schwartz v. Barclays Capital, Incorporated

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• concluding that the 21-day deadline to seek an extension from the bankruptcy court “is jurisdictional so far as an appeal to the district court is concerned”
• applying § 707(a) to find that “unjustified refusal to pay one’s debts is a valid ground” for dismissal
• equating the granting of a section 707(a) motion and dismissal of the case with denial of the discharge
• finding cause to dismiss where debtor depleted assets prior to filing chapter 7
• “[A]n unjustified refusal to pay one’s debts is a valid ground under 11 U.S.C. § 707(a) to deny a discharge of a bankrupt’s debts.”
• “[T]he fact that the three grounds are introduced by ’including tugs against the argument that they are exclusive, or that they exhaust the statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).