United States Ninth Circuit

The lien-avoidance provision of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. section 522(f)(1), allows that a debtor need not have an interest in property to avoid a judicial lien on that property.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/11/2002
• Decided 09/18/2002
• Published 09/18/2002

Judges

• Before: KOZINSKI and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges, and MAHAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James A. Hayes, Jr., Ashworth, Hayes & Moran, LLP, Laguna Niguel, CA;  and Frederick B. Sainick and Richard P. Whitney, Sainick & Cote, Newport Beach, CA, for appellant Culver, LLC.


• For Appellees:
  
• Halli B. Heston and Richard G. Heston, Heston & Heston, Newport Beach, CA, for appellees Thomas Kai-Ming Chiu and Linda Luk Chiu.