COHEN

v.

DE LA CRUZ ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Bousley v. United States, 523 U.S. 614 (U.S. 1998)
  …aim was not waived by his guilty plea, and that his conviction should therefore be vacated. Nevertheless, the Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court’s order of dismissal. Bousley v. Brooks, 97 F. 3d 284 (CA8 1996). We then granted certiorari, 521 U. S. 1152 (1997), to resolve a split among the Circuits over the permissibility of post -Bailey collateral attacks on § 924(e)(1) convictions obtained pursuant to guilty pleas.1 Because the Government disagreed with the Court of Appeals’ analysis, we appointe…
• Rivet v. Regions Bank of La., 522 U.S. 470 (U.S. 1998)
  …petitioners’ claim. The Courts of Appeals have adopted differing views regarding the propriety of removing a state-court action to federal court on the ground that the claim asserted is precluded by a prior federal judgment.2 We granted certiorari, 521 U. S. 1152 (1997), to resolve the matter. H í> A state-court action may be removed to federal court if it qualifies as a "civil action ... of which the district courts of the United States have original jurisdiction,” unless Congress expressly provides other…
• Cohen v. de la Cruz, 523 U.S. 213 (U.S. 1998)
  …SD Ind. 1993) (same); In re Brady, 154 B. R. 82, 85 (Bkrtcy. Ct. WD Mo. 1993) (same). We noted the issue without resolving it in Grogan v. Garner, 498 U. S. 279, 282, n. 2 (1991). We granted cer-tiorari to address the conflict in the lower courts, 521 U. S. 1152 (1997), and we now affirm. II The Bankruptcy Code has long prohibited debtors from discharging liabilities incurred on account of their fraud, embodying a basic policy animating the Code of affording relief only to an “honest but unfortunate debto…