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DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING: RECENT SUPREME COURT DECISIONS AND ETHICS

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(Reprinted from Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, January 2011, with permission.  Copyright © 2011 Thomson Reuters/West.  For more information about this publication please visit www.west.thomson.com.)

By Thomas F. Waldron – U.S. Bankruptcy Judge (Retired)

INTRODUCTION

The last term of the United States Supreme Court produced several significant bankruptcy decisions: Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz v. United States, 130 S. Ct. 1324, U.S. 2010, United Student Aid Funds Inc. v. Espinosa, 130 S. Ct. 1367, U.S. 2010 and Hamilton v. Lanning . . .

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