the Court. Agreeing with the First Circuit's opinion, the Court held that there is a bad faith exception to the right to convert from Chapter 7 to Chapter 11. According to the Court, "a Chapter 13 proceeding may be either dismissed or converted to a Chapter 7 proceeding 'for cause' and includes a nonexclusive list of 10 causes justifying that relief. None of the specified causes mentions prepetition bad-faith conduct.... Bankruptcy courts nevertheless routinely treat dismissal for prepetition bad-faith conduct as implicitly authorized by the words 'for cause.'" Dissent Justice Alito dissented from the opinion of the Court, and was joined by three other Justices. Alito found that the imposition of the bad-faith exception "is inconsistent with the Bankruptcy Code." His opinion follows the plain language of the statute, specifically the passage that indicates that a "debtor may convert a case under this chapter to a case under chapter 11, 12, or 13 of this title at any time, if the case has not been converted under section 1112, 1208, or 1307 of this title." He finds that to read an implied bad-faith exception would violate the actual wording of the statute, and that the statute functions well without need of such an interpretation. References External links United States Supreme Court cases United States bankruptcy case law 2007 in United States case law Fraud in the United States Finance fraud NatWest Group litigation United States Supreme Court cases of the Roberts Court