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SIEGEL v. FITZGERALD

No. 21-441.

142 S.Ct. 1770 (2022)

596 U.S. 464

Alfred H. SIEGEL, Trustee of the Circuit City Stores, Inc. Liquidating Trust, Petitioner v. John P. FITZGERALD, III, Acting United States Trustee for Region 4.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 6, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel L. Geyser, Los Angeles, CA, for the petitioner.

Curtis E. Gannon, Deputy Solicitor General, for the respondent.

Jeffrey N. Pomerantz, Andrew W. Caine, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Robert J. Feinstein Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, New York, NY, Daniel L. Geyser, Counsel of Record, Ben L. Mesches, Kelli Bills, Haynes and Boone, LLP, Dallas, TX, Angela M. Oliver, Haynes and Boone, LLP, Washington, DC, for petitioner.

Elizabeth B. Prelogar, Solicitor General, Counsel of Record, Brian M. Boynton, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Curtis E. Gannon, Deputy Solicitor General, Masha G. Hansford, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Mark B. Stern, Jeffrey E. Sandberg, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., Ramona D. Elliott, Deputy Director/General Counsel, P. Matthew Sutko, Associate General Counsel, Beth A. Levene, Wendy Cox, Andrew Beyer, Trial Attorneys, Executive Office for United States Trustees, Washington, D.C., for respondent.

The Bankruptcy Clause empowers Congress to establish "uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States." U. S. Const., Art. I, § 8, cl. 4. The Clause's requirement that bankruptcy laws be "uniform" is not a straitjacket: Congress retains flexibility to craft legislation...

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