Stuart Gold v. Kelly Lewis

RYAN, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, Kelly Ann Lewis, is a debtor who filed a voluntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition. The plaintiff, Stuart A. Gold, is the Chapter 7 Trustee for the bankruptcy estate and is contesting Lewis’s claim that her interest in a Ford Motor Company employee buyout plan is exempt from bankruptcy proceedings under 11 U.S.C. § 522(d)(ll)(E). After both the bankruptcy court and the federal district court ruled in favor of Lewis, the Trustee appealed to this court. We will affirm the bankruptcy court’s judgment for Lewis.

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Lewis is a former Ford Motor Company employee and…