CENTRAL VA. COMMUNITY COLLEGE v. KATZ

No. 04-885.

546 U.S. 356 (2006)

CENTRAL VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ET AL. v. KATZ, LIQUIDATING SUPERVISOR FOR WALLACE'S BOOKSTORES, INC.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 23, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Thro, State Solicitor General of Virginia, argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Judith Williams Jagdmann, Attorney General, Bernard L. McNamee II, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Maureen Riley Matsen, Deputy Attorney General, Brian J. Goodman and Cynthia H. Norwood, Assistant Attorneys General, and Matthew M. Cobb, Carla R. Collins, Eric A. Gregory, Joel C. Hoppe, Courtney M. Malveaux, Valerie L. Myers, A. Cameron O'Brion, Ronald N. Regnery, D. Mathias Roussy, Jr., and William R. Sievers, Associate State Solicitors General.

Kim Martin Lewis argued the cause for respondent. With her on the brief were Jon L. Fleischaker, Mark A. Vander Laan, Jeremy S. Rogers, and G. Eric Brunstad, Jr.*


JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Article I, § 8, cl. 4, of the Constitution provides that Congress shall have the power to establish "uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States." In Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation v. Hood, 541 U.S. 440 (2004), we granted certiorari to determine whether this Clause gives Congress the...

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