Office of the U.S. Trustee v. John Q. Hammons Fall 2006, LLC
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 14, 2024 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- June 14, 2024
- Term
- October Term 2023
- Vote
- 6–3
- Majority author
- Justice Jackson
- Issue area
- Economic Activity
- Disposition
- Reversed and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2023 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321 , 337. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRUSTEE v. JOHN Q. HAMMONS FALL 2006, LLC, ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT No. 22–1238. Argued January 9, 2024—Decided June 14, 2024 Two Terms ago, in Siegel v. Fitzgerald, 596 U. S. 464 , the Court held that a statute violated the Bankruptcy Clause’s uniformity requirement be- cause it permitted different fees for Chapter 11 debtors depending on the district where their case was filed. In this case, the Court is asked to determine the appropriate remedy for that constitutional violation. As noted in Siegel, there are three options: (1) refund fees for the thou- sands of debtors charged higher fees in districts administered by the U. S. Trustee Program, (2) retroactively extract higher fees from the small number of debtors charged lower fees in districts administered by the Bankruptcy Administrator Program, or (3) require only prospec- tive fee parity.…
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