Schinck v. Stephens (In Re Stephens)

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that subsection 1322(c)(1) “now grants debtors the opportunity to cure home mortgage defaults up to the foreclosure sale in a civil foreclosure action, whether or not state law principles would have extinguished the debtor’s real property rights in the period preceding bankruptcy”
• “With this phrase [referring to “foreclosure sale that is conducted in accordance with applicable nonbankruptcy law”] Congress has, in effect, directed that I look to the state law for the meaning of ‘foreclosure sale.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).