Patterson v. Shumate

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1992-06-15

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Justice Scalia, concurring. The Court’s opinion today, which I join, prompts several observations. When the phrase “applicable nonbankruptcy law” is considered in isolation, the phenomenon that three Courts of Appeals could have thought it a synonym for “state law” is mystifying. When the phrase is considered together with the rest of the Bankruptcy Code (in which Congress chose to refer t…

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