Legal Opinion
Sacks v. Rothberg (In Re Rothberg)
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided May 30, 1991No. Bankruptcy No. 89-1040, Adv. Proc. No. 90-0120PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION ON MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
S. MARTIN TEEL, Jr., Bankruptcy Judge.
The plaintiff Pauline Sacks seeks a declaration that she has an equitable lien against the debtor’s interest in a limited partnership and that the equitable lien takes priority over any perfected security interests of the defendants. I hold that she has no equitable lien but only a consensual lien constituting an unperfected security interest junior to perfected security interests under article 9 of the District of Columbia’s Uniform Commercial Code (“UCC”). 1 Accordingly, I will deny her motion for summary judgment…
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