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Attorney Zenas Zelotes challenged the bankruptcy prerequisite in federal court, claiming it violated his First Alteration precise to unrestrictedly encourage clients.
A federal magistrate in Connecticut found the Bankruptcy Berating Preclusion and Consumer Immunity Act (BAPCPA) overbroad and unconstitutional as applied to attorneys, because it prevents them from “advising clients to take allowable, canny actions as well as perverted ones.”
While an plea was up in the air, the Paramount Court interpreted the law as a critical yardstick blocking attorneys and difficulties-remission agencies from encouraging clients to “stuff up” on obligation before bankruptcy.
As the Manhattan-based appeals court explained, “The statute does not foil attorneys, or other due assistance agencies, from advising clients to attract more in financial difficulty in promote of bankruptcy when doing so serves legalize purposes, nor does BAPCPA restrain ‘candid scrutiny’ between attorney and customer about incurring liability.”