U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan Pens First Opinion

Lawyers USAJanuary 18, 2011

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The case in which Justice Elena Kagan asked her first oral argument question as a Supreme Court justice yielded the first opinion written by the Court's newest associate justice.

Today Kagan announced the opinion she authored in the case Ransom v. FIA Card Services, in which the Court held 8-1 that a debtor in bankruptcy cannot deduct "vehicle ownership expenses" against his projected disposable income when he already owns his car fully and makes no car payments.

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan Pens First Opinion

The case involved a bankruptcy filer who sought to deduc...

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