JUDGMENT ISSUED.

Record returned to U.S.C.A. for Tenth Circuit. 2-boxes

Adjudged to be AFFIRMED Alito, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Stevens, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor, JJ., joined. Scalia, J., filed a dissenting opinion. (orders list)

Argued. For petitioner: Jan Hamilton, Topeka, Kan. For respondent: Thomas C. Goldstein, Washington, D. C.; and Sarah Harrington, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.)

Reply of petitioner Jan Hamilton, Chapter 13 Trustee filed. (Distributed)

CIRCULATED.

Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED. (orders list)

Record received from U.S.Bankrutcy Appellate Panel of for Tenth Circuit. (1 envelope)

Brief amicus curiae of United States filed.

Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed.

Brief amicus curiae of Professor Ned W. Waxman filed.

Brief of respondent Stephanie Kay Lanning filed.

The time within which to file respondent's brief on the merits is further extended to and including January 27, 2010.

SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Monday, March 22, 2010.

Brief amicus curiae of National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys in support of neither party filed.

Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed)

Brief of petitioner Jan Hamilton, Chapter 13 Trustee filed.

The time within which to file respondent's brief on the merits is extended to and including January 22, 2010.

The time within which to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits is extended to and including December 21, 2009.

Petition GRANTED limited to the following question: Whether, in calculating the debtor's "projected disposable income" during the plan period, the bankruptcy court may consider evidence suggesting that the debtor's income or expenses during that peri... (orders list)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of October 30, 2009.

Brief amicus curiae of United States filed.

The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 11, 2009.

Letter of April 20, 2009, from counsel for Stephanie Kay Lanning received.

Response Requested . (Due May 4, 2009)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of April 17, 2009.

Supplemental appendix of Jan Hamilton, Chapter 13 Trustee filed.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 9, 2009)

Jan Hamilton, Chapter 13 Trustee, Petitioner, represented by Jan Hamilton

Stephanie Kay Lanning, Respondent, represented by Michael F. Brunton

Stephanie Kay Lanning, Respondent, represented by Thomas C. Goldstein

Jan Hamilton, Chapter 13 Trustee v. Stephanie Kay Lanning, Amicus Curiae, represented by Sarah Elaine Harrington

National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, Amicus Curiae, represented by Jonathan L. Marcus

Professor Ned W. Waxman, Amicus Curiae, represented by Ned Warren Waxman

United States, Amicus Curiae, represented by Elena Kagan