Pugh v. Brook
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents the following question: Do the limitations periods prescribed in 11 U.S.C. §§ 546(a) and 549(d) operate to divest a bankruptcy court of subject matter jurisdiction once they have elapsed, or do these periods constitute statutes of limitations that can be waived? We adopt the latter characterization as the law of this circuit, and therefore affirm.
I
This appeal involves an adversary proceeding brought in bankruptcy court by the ap-pellee, bankruptcy trustee V. John Brook, Jr., against the appellants, debtors William D. Pugh and Elizabeth Pugh. The…
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