Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in City of Chicago v. Fulton

By William Houston Brown, Editor/Adviser, Academy for Consumer Bankruptcy Education

On December 18, 2019, the Supreme Court granted the City of Chicago’s petition for certiorari, 2019 WL 6880702, from the decision of the Seventh Circuit at 926 F.3d 916 (7th Cir. June 19, 2019). The Seventh Circuit’s decision was analyzed in a prior article on this website.

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