Richard DeLauro v. Ralph F. Porto

How courts have described this case

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• holding Supreme Court’s “bright line rale,” that issue of attorneys’ fees is always collateral to the merits, applies in bankruptcy cases, and thus fee issues do not affect finality
• “[T]he failure to cite the proper legal authority for a proposition is a failure of legal pleading; at most it is bad lawyering.”
• “As for DeLauro’s appeal to the district court of the denial of his objections to the discharge, ... we can and do decide that the appeal was colorable (non-frivolous enough
• “As for DeLauro’s appeal to the district court of the denial of his objections to the discharge, ... we can and do decide that the appeal was colorable (non-frivolous enough

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