Meoli v. Citicorp Trust Bank (In Re Oswalt)

OPINION

JO ANN C. STEVENSON, Bankruptcy Judge.

The principal issue before the Court is whether the July 2003 Amendment to the Mobile Home Commission Act was simply a clarification of the Michigan Legislature’s intent; to wit, that a security interest in a mobile home could be perfected under either real estate law or through the Mobile Home Commission Act, or whether it was new law that cannot be applied retroactively.

The claims arising in this adversary proceeding arise in a case referred to this Court by the Standing Order of Reference entered by the United States District Court for the…