Judge takes Congress to Task in Bankruptcy Case

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12 September 2006 at 10:20 a.m. ET

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By Robert Elder, American-Statesman Staff

FREDERICKSBURG, TX ? Alfonso Sosa, a house painter here who made about $20,000 last year, filed for bankruptcy the morning of Dec. 6, hoping to avoid the foreclosure on his family’s mobile home scheduled for later that day. Judge Frank Monroe of Austin rejected the case 16 days later ? with a bang.

In his ruling, Monroe said the new federal bankruptcy law is full of traps for consumers, calling some of its provisions “inane,” “absurd” and incomprehensible to “any rational human being.”

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