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Petition of the day

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Last day of 2013 term

The petition of the day is:

17-772

Issue: Whether a debtor who has inadvertently failed to disclose the existence of a potential claim in a bankruptcy petition should be estopped from litigating that claim because she is attributed a presumption of deceit where she had knowledge of the facts that gave rise to the undisclosed claim without regard to her subjective intent.

Cases: Nicholson v. Thrifty Payless, Inc.

Recommended Citation: Aurora Barnes, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Jan. 30, 2018, 12:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/01/petition-of-the-day-1311/