(Bankr. E.D. Ky. Apr. 13, 2017)
The bankruptcy court grants the defendant’s motion to dismiss except with respect to payments received from the debtor within the 90-day prepetition preference period. The court first finds that the trustee failed to state a claim for avoidance of alleged preferential transfers made outside the 90-day period because the facts alleged did not show that the defendant was an “insider” as defined in the bankruptcy code or a “non-statutory insider” under case law. The trustee also failed to allege facts sufficient to support various other claims to avoid transfers to the defendant. Opinion below.
Judge: Wise
Attorneys for Trustee: Bingham Greenbaum Doll LLP, Claude R. Bowles, Jr., Daniel J. Donnellon, Jamies R. Irving, April A. Wimberg
Attorneys for Defendant: Stites & Harbison, Brian H. Meldrum, Brian R. Pollock
2017-04-13 – in re licking river mining
Author: Matt Lindblom
Kentuckiana Bankruptcy Opinions 