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Kathryn MacEwen Conti v. Arrowood Indemnity Company

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 20-1172 · judgment December 14, 2020


Certiorari denied · June 28, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

May commercial lenders create non-dischargeable debts by placing language in the promissory notes that identifies the loan as a “student loan,” “educational loan” or other such language mirroring this Court’s pronouncement in Hood and Espinosa that all student loans are non-dischargeable?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Guy Thomas Conti
The Law Offices of Guy T. Conti, PLLC

For respondent
Britton C. Lewis
Carruthers & Roth, P.A.

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jun 28 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 08 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/24/2021.
  3. May 20 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent Arrowood Indemnity Company to respond filed.
  4. May 13 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 16, 2021)