| B01 — Current version; partial |
Use the read (a)–(c) body with its declared cutoff. C001–C003, C074; S001. |
Unexamined law after compilation and judicial history. |
Access date proves exhaustive current law. |
Read any officially adopted § 525 change after the displayed cutoff, including its application clause. |
| B02 — Governmental-unit category; answered definition, application held |
Apply the complete § 101(27) category, not an ordinary public/private label. C011; S002(27). |
Actual legal constitution/classification; jurisdiction. |
Government funding or a public function alone proves coverage. |
Read the generic governing classification authority only if that category becomes necessary. |
| B03 — United States trustee qualification; answered boundary |
Preserve the exclusion while serving as trustee in a Title 11 case. C011; S002(27). |
Capacity and applicable legal theory absent. |
Every act associated with the title “trustee” has identical status. |
Read the narrow generic capacity and authority provision relevant to the asserted category. |
| B04 — Person versus individual; answered boundary |
(a)/(c) use person; (b) uses individual. The § 1102-only exception is not generalized. C007–C010, C037; S001–S002. |
Actual recipient category. |
Every entity can invoke the private-employment branch. |
Read only a necessary generic classification provision; retain § 101(41)’s limiting clause. |
| B05 — Association; partial |
The specified associated recipients are included, with the respective wording of (a), (b), and (c). C021, C025, C042, C045; S001. |
Meaning and actual association. |
A relationship label conclusively establishes protection or another party’s liability. |
Examine a generic public legal construction of “associated” only within a separately authorized scope. |
| B06 — Debtor status; answered definition, application held |
§ 101(13) requires a commenced Title 11 case concerning the person/municipality. C006; S002. |
Actual status; § 109 eligibility if relevant. |
Hardship or an intention to file equals debtor status. |
Read the indispensable generic commencement/eligibility clause before stating its effect. |
| B07 — Former Bankruptcy Act; partial |
§ 525 expressly retains former-Act debtor/bankrupt and discharge references. C026, C028, C061; S001, S008. |
Former-Act definitions, historical version, application chain. |
Former references can be ignored or modern definitions automatically substituted. |
Read the exact former-Act definition and original savings provision relevant to the legal category. |
| B08 — Chapter application; partial |
§ 103, § 901, and § 1161 have different application lists; they were read. C019–C020; S004. |
Any particular chapter/status and external-protection construction. |
Every chapter has identical incorporation or automatic exclusion from every § 525-related protection. |
Read only the indispensable chapter-specific application/definition clause. |
| B09 — Similar grant; partial |
(a) names license, permit, charter, franchise, or similar grant. C022; S001(a). |
Legal meaning of similarity and actual object. |
Every government payment, loan, or contract is necessarily a similar grant. |
Seek a generic official construction of the category; judicial construction remains separately held. |
| B10 — Grant action; answered text, application held |
Denial, revocation, suspension, nonrenewal, conditioning, and discrimination respecting the grant are listed, with remaining predicates. C023, C025–C031; S001(a). |
Action, recipient, reason, causation, exception. |
One listed action alone proves a violation. |
Read the narrow public authority for any unresolved object or exception, without a record search. |
| B11 — Government employment; answered text |
Denial, termination, and discrimination respecting employment are expressly listed. C024, C029; S001(a). |
Actor, individual facts, causation, remedy. |
Express inclusion guarantees hiring or reinstatement. |
Examine only necessary generic employment-category or remedy authority. |
| B12 — Private employer; partial |
(b) requires the private-employer category and the protected individual/association conditions. C021, C037; S001(b). |
Employer and employment construction. |
Every nongovernmental adverse actor is a private employer. |
Read a narrow generic construction of the actor and relationship. |
| B13 — Private hiring wording; partial |
(b) lacks (a)’s separate denial-of-employment phrase. C038; S001(a)–(b). |
Judicial meaning and other-law protections. |
All private refusals to hire are lawful, or the omission has no legal significance. |
A separately scoped generic judicial-construction inquiry would be needed; no case query was made here. |
| B14 — Private termination/treatment; answered text |
(b) prohibits the listed employment conduct solely because of its specified reasons. C037–C042; S001(b). |
Actual act, protected recipient, reason, sole causation. |
Any unfavorable workplace treatment proves bankruptcy discrimination. |
Read the narrow public proof/process authority only if needed in a later component. |
| B15 — Independent reason/sole cause; partial |
(a)/(b) retain sole-cause language. C029, C042; S001. |
Actual reasons, pretext, evidentiary and causation standards. |
Stating an alternative reason proves compliance, or bankruptcy status proves causation. |
Examine generic official causation/proof authority within separately defined scope. |
| B16 — Nonpartnership insolvency; partial |
Debts must exceed fair-valued property with both specified exclusions. C015, C018; S002(32)(A). |
Values, intent, § 522 exemption chain. |
Low cash or debt alone establishes statutory insolvency. |
Read only the indispensable § 522 clause if an abstract exemption issue becomes material; no calculation. |
| B17 — Partnership insolvency; partial |
The aggregate includes the specified general-partner nonpartnership excesses. C016; S002(32)(B). |
Full classifications, exclusions, values. |
The ordinary entity test can simply be copied. |
Trace the exact incorporated exclusion and partnership category; no financial fact gathering. |
| B18 — Municipal insolvency; partial |
The due-debt alternatives and bona fide dispute qualification differ from the fair-valuation tests. C017, C020; S002, S004. |
Municipal classification, chapter/application law, facts. |
A municipal definition itself establishes § 525 protection in a particular setting. |
Read the necessary generic Chapter 9/category provision before any broader proposition. |
| B19 — Precommencement insolvency; answered sequence |
The protected insolvency reason includes the precommencement period. C027, C040, C046; S001. |
Legal insolvency and actual sequence. |
A fixed statutory lookback in days or years exists in § 525. |
Read any proposed additional temporal authority expressly; do not invent one. |
| B20 — During-case insolvency; answered sequence |
The period ends, for this ground’s wording, before grant or denial of discharge. C027, C030, C040, C046; S001. |
Case/discharge events; exact application. |
“Denied discharge” is omitted or treated as identical to granted discharge. |
Read the indispensable discharge-decision provision only if a generic category issue requires it. |
| B21 — Later status; answered boundary |
Present/past debtor-status wording is distinct from the insolvency period. C026, C030, C039; S001. |
Later action/reason and governing construction. |
Every protection automatically ends at discharge, or every later adverse result is prohibited. |
Examine the particular protected reason and action, then any necessary generic construction. |
| B22 — Qualifying unpaid debt; partial |
Preserve current-case dischargeability versus former-Act discharge. C028, C041, C046, C051; S001. |
Applicable chapter, § 523 chain, former-Act law; no debt facts. |
Every unpaid debt is protected, or § 525 itself discharges it. |
Read the exact necessary dischargeability clause and its incorporated definitions in a separate narrow inquiry. |
| B23 — PACA discharge termination; partial |
§ 499d(a)’s final proviso has a bankruptcy predicate and a circumstances exception, including requested examination. C032, C034; S006. |
Category, circumstances, request, further PACA chain. |
Termination is universally inevitable or universally forbidden. |
Read necessary § 499a definitions and the relevant public procedural clause. |
| B24 — PACA refusal; partial |
§ 499d(e)’s role, lookback, circumstances finding, and bond/assurance exception are cumulative as written. C033–C034; S006. |
Role, timing, findings, assurance and complete category law. |
Bankruptcy alone automatically permits refusal. |
Trace only the necessary statutory category and assurance authority, not an application. |
| B25 — Packers/1943 provision; partial |
§ 525(a) preserves the named Acts; § 204 has notice/hearing, insolvency, order, and timing qualifications. C031, C035–C036; S001, S007. |
Definitions, § 193, entire relevant exception chain. |
Every agricultural actor is exempt from every § 525 branch. |
Read exact necessary 7 U.S.C. definitions and § 193 before extending the proposition. |
| B26 — Government student-program operator; partial |
Governmental status plus operation of the specified grant/loan program is required by this actor clause. C043, C048–C049; S001(c). |
Program authority and actual operation absent. |
Any government credit decision falls within (c). |
Read the exact public enabling provision for the generic program category. |
| B27 — Loan-making business category; partial |
The business must include making loans guaranteed or insured under a defined student loan program. C044, C048; S001(c). |
Qualifying activity and program/guarantee/insurance authority. |
Every creditor, guarantor, school, or education-related business qualifies. |
Trace the narrow statutory program and guarantee/insurance clauses. |
| B28 — Financing denial object/recipient; answered text, application held |
Listed objects and bankruptcy/association recipient conditions must coexist with actor and causal conditions. C045–C047; S001(c)(1). |
Object, recipient, reason, causation. |
Protection against a reason guarantees approval, terms, or another person’s liability. |
Read only the generic eligibility/terms provision needed to distinguish the separate question. |
| B29 — Title IV category; partial |
Current definition uses any Title IV program; old Parts B/D/E wording is not the current definition. C048–C049, C065, C070; S001, S012–S013. |
Complete program-specific Title IV chain. |
Every educational loan or every applicant is covered. |
Read the complete narrow Title IV program provision and definitions relevant to the category. |
| B30 — State/local similarity; partial |
The alternative requires a similar program operated under State or local law. C048–C049; S001(c)(2). |
Governing public program law and legal similarity. |
A matching label proves statutory similarity. |
Read only the generic State/local program authority if separately authorized. |
| B31 — “Because” in (c); partial |
Preserve the actual causal word without adding “solely.” C047; S001(c)(1). |
Governing judicial standard and actual proof. |
Textual difference alone establishes an automatic mixed-motive result. |
A separately scoped generic construction inquiry is required. |
| B32 — Ordinary new private credit; answered boundary |
The selected text supplies no universal new-private-credit entitlement; (c)’s specialized prohibition remains intact. C050; S001. |
Other credit laws, object/actor categories, facts. |
Every private credit denial is permitted or all credit is protected. |
Read only the distinct generic credit authority if a later component requires it. |
| B33 — 1978 original/savings; partial |
Credit and compiled amended transition clauses are readable; original body failed. C059–C061; S008–S009. |
Original § 525/§§ 401–403 and intervening transition amendments. |
Compiled notes equal direct original authentication. |
Reopen an ordinarily accessible official original publication, without a gate workaround. |
| B34 — 1984 effect/renumbering; partial |
Renumbering Act is directly read; original addition/effect Act remains failed. C062–C064; S010–S011. |
Original § 309 and original § 553 text. |
Wrong section number or a universal consumer waiting period. |
Read the original published §§ 309 and 553 and compare with the adopted renumbering. |
| B35 — 1994 version/application; partial |
Complete selected enrolled clauses distinguish addition, technical deletion, default application, and exceptions. C065–C069; S012. |
Published original comparison. |
Every amendment applies identically to every pending matter. |
Obtain the ordinarily readable published Act’s exact selected clauses. |
| B36 — 2005 version/application; answered selected text |
§ 1211’s changes and complete § 1501 were directly read. C070–C072; S013. |
Actual case timing; exhaustive other-Act exceptions/later history. |
An enactment date alone determines every application, or 180 days is an applicant waiting period. |
Read only any specifically implicated additional application clause. |
| B37 — Historical (d); partial history, answered current organization |
Current body omits (d); compiled notes describe addition and one-year removal. C073–C074; S001, S014. |
Original § 1001(c) and temporal construction. |
Historical text is current, or removal proves no other relief exists. |
Read the exact original addition/removal clauses; keep underlying CARES remedies separate. |
| B38 — Immunity/cause/remedy; partial |
§ 106 lists § 525 but limits effect and disclaims creation of a new substantive cause. C052–C057; S005. |
Underlying cause, jurisdiction, rules, fees, enforcement, judicial construction. |
Automatic money award, injunction, reinstatement, or universal waiver. |
Read the complete narrow remedy/process chain only in a separately bounded component. |
| B39 — Other law and A092 outcomes; excluded application |
Selected prohibitions do not settle actual liabilities, records, employment, credit, housing, insurance, or rebuilding outcomes. C050–C058, C076; S001–S005. |
All actual facts and other regimes. |
Silence authorizes conduct or guarantees life-after-resolution success. |
Define a separate generic public-law component before expanding. |
| B40 — Access failure; answered source limit |
A failed endpoint is unavailable evidence; recovered bodies are identified separately. C075; read/failure log. |
Unread original text and any missing dependencies. |
Failure means repeal, absence of protection, or permission to bypass a gate. |
Use an ordinary official alternative and preserve its actual status/read bounds. |