Legal Opinion
Warfield v. Byron
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 17, 2006No. 04-10796, 04-11041PublishedCited by 207 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:
Two investors in a Ponzi scheme were sued for fraudulent transfers because they received significantly more funds from the scheme than they invested. Further, when granting summary judgment for the receiver of the entities involved in the scheme, the district court gratuitously declared that the judgments against the investors would be nondischargeable in bankruptcy.
On appeal, the receiver concedes that the district court’s premature ruling on nondischargeability must be vacated, and we concur. Because the investors’ other challenges to the judgments are meritless,…
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