Law v. Siegel

Law v. Siegel
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 13, 2014 Decided March 4, 2014
Full case name	Stephen Law, Petitioner v. Alfred H. Siegel, Chapter 7 Trustee
Docket no.	12-5196
Citations	571 U.S. 415 (more) 134 S. Ct. 1188; 188 L. Ed. 2d 146
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	Law v. Siegel (In re Law), 435 Fed. App'x 697 (9th Cir. 2011)., affirming In re Law, 2009 WL 7751415 (9th Cir. B.A.P. 2009)., affirming In re Law, 401 B.R. 447 (Bkrtcy. Ct. CD Cal. 2009)., cert. granted, 570 U.S. 904 (2013).
Holding
Whatever other sanctions a bankruptcy court may impose on a dishonest debtor, it may not contravene express provisions of the Bankruptcy Code by ordering that the debtor’s exempt property be used to pay debts and expenses for which that property is not liable under the Code.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinion
Majority	Scalia, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
11 U.S.C. § 105 (power of the bankruptcy court), 11 U.S.C. § 522 (exemptions from bankrupt estate)

Law v. Siegel, 571 U.S. 415 (2014), is a ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States that describes the extent of the powers of bankruptcy courts in dealing with the bad faith of debtors.