9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
The stakes were high for Orange County Bail Bonds after the mother of a captured fugitive filed for bankruptcy, preventing the company from selling her house, which she had signed over as security for her son's bond. Without proceeds from the house, the bond company couldn't pay the fugitive recovery business it had contracted with to track down the son.
Then, in the middle of litigation over the debt, California voters passed ... (continued)