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California Lawyer Search - Listings for Cutter Law Firm
Name: Cutter Law Firm
Address: Concord, CA 94518
Phone Number: 925-671-2686
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Insurance Law & Coverage
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Cases related to this attorney's specialties:
USA v. MYERS FILED United States Court of Appeals 1000 Tenth Circuit MAR 29 2004 PATRICK FISHER Clerk PUBLISH UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS TENTH CIRCUIT IN RE WESLEY ALLEN MYERS and SONJA DIANE MYERS, Debtors. _ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, on behalf of the Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency, Appellant, v. No. 02-2350 WESLEY ALLEN MYERS, SONJA DIANE MYERS, and RONALD E. HOLMES, Trustee, Appellees. ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY APPELLATE PANEL OF THE TENTH CIRCUIT (B.A.P. No. NM-02-035) (284 B.R. 478) Edward Himmelfarb, Appellate Staff Civil Division, Department of Justice (Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Washington, D.C., David C. Iglesias, United States Attorney, Albuquerque, N.M., and William Kanter, Appellate Staff Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., with him on the briefs), Washington, D.C., for Appellant. George M. Moore, George M. Moore & Associates, Albuquerque, N.M., for Appellees. Before LUCERO, BALDOCK, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges. BALDOCK, Circuit Judge. In March 2000, Wesley Allen Myers and Sonja Diane Myers (Debtors) filed a Chapter 12 bankruptcy petition in the United States Bankruptcy Court. The Farm Service Agency (FSA), an agency within the United States Department of Agriculture, filed a motion for relief from the automatic stay to setoff government program payments owed to Debtors. The bankruptcy court denied the FSA's motion, holding administrative regulations prohibited setoff. On appeal, the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) affirmed on alternative grounds, focusing on 553 of the Bankruptcy Code. In re Myers, 284 B.R. 478 (B.A.P. 10th Cir. 2002). Section 553 provides in relevant part: [T]his title does not affect any right of a creditor to offset a mutual debt owing by such creditor to the debtor that arose before the commencement of the case under this title against a claim of such creditor against the debtor that arose before the commencement of the case[.] 11 U...
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