Drown v. ESB (In Re Farley)

MEMORANDUM OPINION ON MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

JOHN E. HOFFMAN, JR., Bankruptcy Judges.

I.Introduction

In each of these six adversary proceedings, the Chapter 7 trustee, William Todd Drown (“Trustee”), seeks to exercise his strong-arm powers under 11 U.S.C. § 544(a) to avoid a prepetition security interest in a motor vehicle owned by a debtor in one of the underlying bankruptcy cases. The Trustee asserts that each security interest was unperfected as of the applicable petition date because the certificate of title on which the interest was noted used an abbreviated and seriously misleading…