Ron Sommers, as Chapter 7 Trustee for Alabama and Dunlavy, Ltd., Flat Stone II, Ltd., and Flat Stone, Ltd., and as Successor in Interest to Jay Cohen, Individually and as Trustee of the Jhc Trusts I and Ii v. Sandcastle Homes, Inc.

Sommers argues that Sandcastle and NewBiss had actual knowledge of the Cohen lawsuit concerning the West Newcastle property when they bought the property, and that they acquired this knowledge independently of the lis pendens notices of *762the Cohen lawsuit. On this basis, Sommers says the trial court erred in granting summary judgment for Sandcastle and New-Biss, and the Court agrees.

Frankly, the statute is a linguistic mare’s nest. The Court today refers to the statute’s “plain text”1 and “plain language,” 2 but this provision is the antithesis of plain. It is a muddle the Court must muddle…