United States Eighth Circuit

In a case challenging application of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA), summary judgment for plaintiff is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) attorneys providing bankruptcy assistance are "debt relief agencies" under the BAPCPA, 11 U.S.C. section 526(a)(4) is unconstitutional as applied to these attorneys; but 2) sections 528(a)(4) and (b)(2) are constitutional.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/04/2008
• Published 09/04/2008

Judges

• SMITH, Circuit Judge., Before BYE, SMITH, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark R. Freeman, argued, Mark B. Stern, USDOJ, on the brief, Washington, DC, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Chad Schulze, argued, Edina, MN, Alan S. Milavetz, Edina, MN, and Thomas F. Miller, Wayzata, MN, on the brief, for appellees., Commercial Law League of America, amici curiae, William H. Schorling and DeWitt Brown, submitted, Philadelphia, PA, for appellees.