Legal Opinion
Pergament v. Brooklyn Law Sch.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided January 4, 2019No. 1:18-CV-2204 (ARR); 1:18-CV-2235 (ARR); 1:18-CV-2236 (ARR)PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, United States District Judge:
In this consolidated bankruptcy appeal, the appellant, a bankruptcy trustee, seeks to overturn the determination of the bankruptcy court that he cannot recover from three institutions of higher learning payments that the debtor made for his children's education. Specifically, the bankruptcy court ruled that the schools were not "the initial transferee[s]" of the payments within the meaning of 11 U.S.C. § 550(a) but rather subsequent transferees that took in good faith from the debtor's children, and thus that the schools were entitled to the protections of §…
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