Angell, Trustee v. First Eastern, LLC

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UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA
IN RE:
CAREMERICA, INC., 	CASE NO: 06-02913-8-JRL
Chapter 7
Debtor.
JAMES B. ANGELL, TRUSTEE,
Plaintiff
vs.
FIRST EASTERN, LLC, 	ADVERSARY PROCEEDING
NO. L-08-00157-8-JRL
Defendant.
______________________________________________________________________________
ORDER
The matter before the court is the motion to dismiss the adversary proceeding by First
Eastern, LLC (“Defendant”). The court held a hearing on this matter on May 21, 2009 in
Raleigh, North Carolina. This order confirms and provides the rationale for the oral ruling at the
conclusion of the hearing granting the motion to dismiss.
SO ORDERED.
SIGNED this 28 day of July, 2009.
________________________________________
J. Rich Leonard
United States Bankruptcy Judge
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JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURE
This court has jurisdiction over the parties and the subject matter of this proceeding
pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 151, 157, and 1334, and the General Order of Reference entered by the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina on August 3, 1984. This
is a core proceeding within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 157(b)(2), which this court may hear and
determine.
UNDISPUTED FACTS
1. On September 15, 2006, Caremerica, Inc., Caremerica Adult Care, Inc., The Meadows
of Hermitage, Inc., The Meadows of Fayetteville Inc., and The Meadows of Wilmington, Inc.
each filed a petition for relief under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. These cases were
subsequently converted to cases under chapter 7. On February 4, 2008, the court entered an
order allowing the substantive consolidation of the debtors and the appointment of a trustee.
These consolidated cases are administered under the case of Caremerica, Inc., 06-02913-8-JRL.
2. On the date of petition, the debtors operated adult care homes in eastern North
Carolina. The debtors leased the buildings used to operate these adult care homes.
3. Ronald E. Burrell and Michael R. Elliott are shareholders and officers of the debtors.
4. The trustee filed an adversary proceeding against the Defendant on September 14,
2008. The trustee sought in his complaint to avoid and recover certain alleged preferential and
fraudulent transfers made by the debtors to the Defendant. The complaint alleged preferential
transfers of “at least $320,911.82" and fraudulent transfers of “at least 389,105.25.”
5. On December 23, 2008, the trustee filed an amended complaint to avoid and recover
preferential and fraudulent transfers (the “Amended Complaint”). Attached to the Amended
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Complaint was Exhibit A, which consisted of various bank statements of the debtors. Included
among these bank statements was a September 2005 bank statement from the Management
Account of Caremerica, Inc.; a February 2006 bank statement from the RTF Transfer Account of
Caremerica, Inc.; and a statement for an account with Wachovia. In addition, Exhibit A
contained a summary of transfers allegedly made by the debtors to the Defendant. This summary
identified the date, amount, account name, account number, and name of transferee for each
transfer. The sum of the transfers was $389,105.25.
6. On January 30, 2009, the Defendant filed a motion to dismiss the adversary
proceeding for failure to state a claim on which relief could be granted.
STANDARD OF REVIEW
Under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a party may move to
dismiss a complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. FED . R. CIV . P.
12(b)(6); F ED . R. BANKR . P. 7012(b). In order to survive a motion to dismiss, a plaintiff must
provide “more than labels and conclusions, and a formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause
of action will not do.” Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555, 127 S. Ct. 1955, 1965
(2007) (citing Papasan v. Allain, 478 U.S. 265, 286, 106 S. Ct. 2932 (1986)). A pleading which
states a claim for relief must contain “a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the
pleader is entitled to relief . . . .” F ED . R. CIV . P. 8(a)(2); FED . R. BANKR . P. 7008. A statement
showing entitlement to relief under Rule 8(a)(2) must include “enough facts to state a claim to
relief that is plausible on its face.” Twombly, 550 U.S. at 570, 127 S. Ct. at 1974.
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1The trustee in the case at bar filed multiple adversary proceedings against various parties
seeking to avoid and recover alleged preferential and fraudulent transfers. In Angell v. BER
Care, Inc., the court analyzed the pleading standard for preferential and fraudulent transfer
claims in light of two recent Supreme Court opinions, Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544,
127 S. Ct. 1955 (2007), and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S. Ct. 1937 (U.S. 2009). This order should be
read in conjunction with the court’s opinion in Angell v. BER Care, Inc.
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ANALYSIS
1. Motion to Dismiss Preference Claims
The Defendant contends that the Amended Complaint fails to state a claim upon which
relief can be granted and therefore should be dismissed pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6). Specifically,
the Defendant asserts that the Amended Complaint fails to allege facts sufficient to show why
the trustee is entitled to avoid alleged preferential transfers under § 547 of the Bankruptcy Code.
The Supreme Court recently adopted a heightened pleading standard for claims for relief under
Rule 8(a)(2) and the requirements for claims to survive a motion to dismiss under 12(b)(6). The
court examined this heightened pleading standard and its relationship to the trustee’s claims to
avoid transfers under § 547 of the Bankruptcy Code in the related adversary proceeding Angell
v. BER Care, Inc., et al., No. L-08-00174-8-JRL (Bankr. E.D.N.C. Jul. 23, 2009). The court
incorporates the analysis and pleading requirements for preference claims set forth in Angell v.
BER Care, Inc. into this order. 1
Pursuant to the Supreme Court’s holdings in Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544,
127 S. Ct. 1955 (2007) and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S. Ct. 1937 (U.S. 2009), the complaint of the
trustee must satisfy a two-pronged test in order to overcome a 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss for
failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. Under this two-pronged test, the trustee
must plead sufficient factual allegations to establish a § 547 preference claim for relief that is
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2Section 547(b) provides:
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) and (i) of this section the trustee may avoid any
transfer of an interest of the debtor in property –
(1) to or for the benefit of a creditor;
(2) for or on account of an antecedent debt owed by the debtor before such transfer was
made;
(3) made while the debtor was insolvent;
(4) made –
(A) on or within 90 days before the date of the filing of the petition; or
(B) between ninety days and one year before the date of the filing of the petition,
if such creditor at the time of such transfer was an insider; and
(5) that enables such creditor to receive more than such creditor would receive if
(A) the case were a case under chapter 7 of this title;
(B) the transfer had not been made; and
(C) such creditor received payment of such debt to the extent provided by the
provisions of this title.
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plausible.2 Because a preference cause of action consists of several elements, the court will
address each element in turn.
A. Transfer of an Interest of the Debtor in Property
Section 547(b) provides that a trustee may avoid “any transfer of an interest of the debtor
in property . . . .” 11 U.S.C. § 547(b). The trustee alleged in his Amended Complaint that the
debtors transferred funds to the Defendant. In support of this allegation, the trustee attached
Exhibit A to the Amended Complaint. Included in Exhibit A were copies of bank statements of
Caremerica, Inc. covering the months in which the transfers were allegedly made. Exhibit A
also contained a table prepared by the trustee which identified the dates, amounts, account
numbers, account names, and names of transferees with respect to the transfers.
Upon review of the Amended Complaint and Exhibit A, the court finds that the trustee’s
allegations include facts in support of the trustee’s theory that the debtors made preferential
transfers to the Defendant. The trustee alleged that “one or more of the Debtors or, in the
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alternative, the Consolidated Debtor . . . made certain transfers to the Defendant in the amount of
at least $320,911.82.” While this statement alone fails to sufficiently identify what interest of
the debtor was transferred, the accompanying table of transfers provides a list of each transfer
and includes the account name from which each transfer derived as well as the date and amount
of each transfer. The court finds that this table of transfers and the bank statements from which
the table was derived are factual assertions supporting the trustee’s claim for relief.
Next, the court must determine whether the factual allegations are sufficient to show that
relief is plausible with respect to the first element of a § 547 preference claim. In this case, the
table of transfers and supporting bank statements reference the source of each transfer by
providing the account name and number for each transferor. Among the bank statements are
statements for the Caremerica, Inc. Management Account and the Caremerica, Inc. RTF Transfer
Account. A third statement from Wachovia Bank was included in part but is missing pages and
is ambiguous as to which entity it belongs. In the trustee’s table of transfers, the trustee
identifies transfers initiated from Caremerica accounts and also identifies accounts in the name
of “The Meadows.” However, it is unclear from this table or the supplemental bank statements
whether “The Meadows” refers to The Meadows of Hermitage, Inc., The Meadows of
Fayetteville Inc., or The Meadows of Wilmington, Inc. Adding to the confusion is a second
table containing information on transfers by The Meadows of Laurinburg and The Meadows of
Greenville, Inc., two entities which are not debtors in the underlying case. Because there are
multiple debtors and non-debtors with similar names, it follows that the account in the name of
“The Meadows” is insufficient by itself to identify the transferor of each transfer. In order to
show that it is plausible that a debtor transferred an interest in property, the complaint must
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specify the identify of the transferor. It follows that the allegations by the trustee regarding
transfers of interests of the debtors in property fail to meet the plausibility standard necessary to
overcome a 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss.
B. To or for the Benefit of a Creditor
Count I of the Amended Complaint asserts that “each preferential transfer was made to or
for the benefit of the Defendant as a creditor of the transferor.” In support of this assertion, the
trustee provided certain information with respect to each alleged transfer, including dates,
amounts, and the name of each transferee. The court finds that the information provided in
Exhibit A to the Amended Complaint, including an identification of the Defendant as transferee
and the dates and amounts of each transfer, is sufficient to plausibly assert that funds were
transferred to the Defendant. The court further finds that the Defendant’s identity as a creditor is
contingent on the existence of an antecedent debt, which is the next element of a preference
claim.
C. For or on Account of an Antecedent Debt
Section 547(b)(2) requires that a preferential transfer must be “for or on account of an
antecedent debt owed by the debtor before such transfer was made.” 11 U.S.C. § 547(b)(2). In
In re Valley Media, Inc., 288 B.R. 189 (Bankr. D. Del. 2003), the Delaware Bankruptcy Court
held that “the nature and amount of the antecedent debt” was necessary to show entitlement to
relief under a preferential transfer theory. Valley Media, 288 B.R. at 192. This court agrees that
the trustee must assert the nature and amount of the antecedent debt in order to allege a plausible
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3Valley Media was decided prior to the Supreme Court cases of Twombly and Iqbal.
However, Valley Media is significant because the Delaware Bankruptcy Court adopted a
heightened pleading standard for § 547 preference claims. See Angell v. BER Care, Inc. for the
court’s examination of the significance of Valley Media in light of Twombly and Iqbal.
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claim for relief. 3 In the case at bar, the Amended Complaint makes the conclusory assertion that
each preferential transfer was made “for, or on account of, an antecedent debt owed by the
Transferor to the Defendant before the transfer was made.” However, the trustee fails to assert
facts supporting the existence of an antecedent debt owed by the debtors to the Defendant. In
order to satisfy the pleading requirements under Iqbal, the court finds that the trustee is obligated
to allege facts regarding the nature and amount of the antecedent debt which, if true, would show
it is plausible that a transfer was made for or on account of an antecedent debt.
D. Made while the Debtor was Insolvent
The avoidance of a preferential transfer is contingent on the debtor being insolvent on the
date of the transfer. 11 U.S.C. § 547(b)(3). Under § 101(32)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code, a
debtor is insolvent when “the sum of such entity’s debts is greater than all of such entity’s
property, at a fair valuation . . . .” 11 U.S.C. § 101(32)(A). In In re Troll Commc’ns, 385 B.R.
110 (Bankr. D. Del. 2008), the Delaware Bankruptcy Court considered whether a trustee
adequately alleged the debtors’ insolvency in its claims for avoidance and recovery of
preferential and fraudulent transfers. Troll Commc’ns, 385 B.R. at 124. The complaint in Troll
Commc’ns contained a valuation of the debtors’ accounts payable and other liabilities, as well as
a negative valuation of the debtors’ tangible net worth. In addition, the trustee provided notes
from the debtors’ accountant expressing the unlikelihood that the debtors could continue as a
going concern. Id. at 114. The Court found that the financial data in the complaint supported
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4The trustee’s table of transfers in Exhibit A identifies four transfers allegedly made more
than 90 days prior to the date of petition, which was September 15, 2006. These transfers
include a wire transfer dated February 10, 2006 in the amount of $120,000.00, two transfers
dated April of 2006 in the amounts of $40,000.00 each, and a transfer dated June 6, 2006 in the
amount of $35,000.00.
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the trustee’s allegations that the debtors had a negative net worth and were unable to meet
maturing obligations leading up to their bankruptcy filings. Id. at 124. As a result, the Court
found sufficient factual allegations of insolvency to permit the trustee to proceed with discovery.
Id.
In the case at bar, the court finds that the trustee’s allegations of insolvency with respect
to transfers alleged to have been made prior to the 90-day period preceding petition are
unsubstantiated. The Bankruptcy Code provides that the trustee may presume a debtor to be
insolvent during the 90-day period preceding the date of the bankruptcy filing. 11 U.S.C. §
547(f). However, this presumption is inapplicable to preferential transfers made outside of the
90-day period. In this case, the trustee asserts that “[e]ach preferential transfer was made while
the [t]ransferor was insolvent.” Without supporting facts, however, the trustee’s conclusory
statement fails to satisfy the heightened pleading standard with respect to those transfers made
prior to the 90-day period preceding the debtors’ petition dates. 4
E. Within 90 Days, or Within One Year if the Creditor was an Insider
The date on which each alleged transfer occurred is critical to ascertaining whether the
transfer is subject to avoidability under § 547. Generally, a transfer is avoidable under § 547 if it
was made within the 90-day period before the date of the filing of the petition. 11 U.S.C. §
547(b)(4)(A). However, if the claimant alleges that the creditor receiving the benefit of the
transfer was an insider, the transfer is avoidable if it occurred between 90 days and one year
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5For more analysis on the pleading requirements for insider status in preference claims,
see Part E of the court’s opinion in Angell v. BER Care, Inc., et al., No. L-08-00174-8-JRL
(Bankr. E.D.N.C. Jul. 23, 2009).
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prior to the petition date. Id. § 547(b)(4)(B).
As to the timing of each transfer, the court finds that the information contained in Exhibit
A to the Amended Complaint, including the specific date and amount of each transfer, is
sufficient to show that it is plausible the transfers occurred on the dates alleged. However, the
trustee must allege additional facts with respect to transfers made more than 90 days prior to the
petition date. The Amended Complaint identifies four transfers in the total sum of
approximately $235,000.00 which occurred more than 90 days prior to the date of petition.
However, the trustee fails to allege in the Amended Complaint that the transferee of each transfer
was an insider of the debtors. Importantly, there are no factual allegations that suggest an insider
relationship between the debtors and the Defendant. In fact, there are no facts alleged by the
trustee that provide any information about the Defendant, other than the assertion that transfers
in certain amounts were made to the Defendant. Therefore, the court finds that the trustee has
failed to sufficiently plead that the Defendant was an insider of the debtors.5
F. Enabled Creditor to Receive More than it would under Chapter 7
Under § 547(b)(5), avoidance is also contingent on the trustee establishing that the
alleged preferential transfer enabled the transferee to receive more than it would have under
chapter 7. “Section 547(b)(5) is a central element of the preference section because it requires a
comparison between what the creditor actually received and what it would have received under
[chapter 7].” 5 Collier on Bankruptcy, ¶ 547.03[7] (Alan N. Resnick & Henry J. Sommer, eds,
15th ed. rev.). Generally, as long as the distribution to general unsecured creditors would be less
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than 100%, any payment to such a creditor during the preference period would enable the
creditor to receive more than it would in a liquidation had the payment not been made. Id.; see
also In re Virginia-Carolina Fin. Corp., 954 F.2d 193, 199 (4th Cir. 1992). Thus, in a situation
where the alleged preferential transferee is an unsecured nonpriority creditor, the trustee must
show that the distribution to all such creditors in a chapter 7 liquidation would be less than
100%. Under Rule 8(a)(2), and in light of the heightened pleading standard expressed in Iqbal,
the trustee is obligated to support his allegation with facts showing that it is plausible that
creditors would receive less than a 100% payout in a liquidation. The court finds that the
debtors’ summary of schedules, reflecting liabilities far greater than assets, is sufficient to satisfy
the trustee’s pleading requirement. See Precision Walls, Inc. v. Crampton, 196 B.R. 299, 303
(E.D.N.C. 1996) (summary of schedules demonstrating that liabilities exceeded assets was
sufficient to support the bankruptcy court’s finding that unsecured creditors would receive less
than 100% on their claims).
2. Motion to Dismiss Fraudulent Transfer Claims
In addition to the claim to avoid preferential transfers, the trustee’s complaint seeks to
avoid alleged fraudulent transfers incurred within the two-year period prior to the petition date of
the debtors. However, the Defendant moves to dismiss the trustee’s claims for avoidance of
fraudulent transfers and contends that the trustee’s claims fail to satisfy the requisite pleading
standard. Section 548 of title 11 allows the trustee to avoid fraudulent transfers of an interest of
the debtor in property incurred within two years before the date of the filing of the petition. 11
U.S.C. § 548(a)(1). Such transfers may be founded on actual fraud or constructive fraud. Id. §
548(a)(1)(A), (B). Under § 548(a)(1), a transfer is avoidable if it was either actually fraudulent
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in that it “(i) had at its purpose an intent to hinder, delay or defraud the debtor’s creditors,” or
that it was constructively fraudulent in that it “(ii) was made while the debtor was in a precarious
financial condition, and the transaction did not provide the debtor with a reasonably equivalent
value in exchange for the item transferred.” 5 Collier on Bankruptcy, ¶ 548.01 (Alan N. Resnick
& Henry J. Sommer, eds, 15th ed. rev.). 	The Defendant alleges that the trustee’s fraudulent
transfer claims must be dismissed for failure to plead sufficient facts to support either actual or
constructive fraud.
First, the Defendant contends that the Amended Complaint fails to satisfy the heightened
pleading standard for actual fraud provided in Rule 9(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Rule 9(b), made applicable by Rule 7009 of the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, requires
a party alleging fraud to “state with particularity the circumstances constituting fraud . . . .” F ED .
R. CIV . P. 9(b); FED . R. BANKR . P. 7009. However, “malice, intent, knowledge, and other
conditions of a person’s mind may be alleged generally.” Id. A claim alleging an actual
fraudulent transfer under § 548 must satisfy the particularity requirement of Rule 9(b). See In re
Derivium Capital, LLC, 380 B.R. 429, 439 (Bankr. D.S.C. 2006) (citing In re Verestar, Inc., 343
B.R. 444, 459 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2006)). The Defendant argues that the Amended Complaint
fails to identify and describe the fraudulent circumstances on which the trustee’s claims are
founded. In response, the trustee admits that his claims to avoid fraudulent transfers under §
548(a)(1)(A) are subject to the Rule 9(b) standard for pleading but argues that the particularity
requirement of Rule 9(b) should be relaxed because he is a third party with secondhand
knowledge and limited access to information at the pleading stage.
The court finds that the trustee’s complaint fails to satisfy the particularity requirement of
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Rule 9(b). Count II of the Amended Complaint recites the elements of a fraudulent transfer
under § 548. In addition, the Amended Complaint asserts that the debtors “were subject to the
dominion and control of Ronald E. Burrell and Michael R. Elliott, who used such control to
commit fraud or wrong, in violation of their legal duties to the Debtors, resulting in substantial
losses to creditors of the Debtors.” Although the trustee alleges wrongdoing on the part of the
principals of the debtors, nowhere in the complaint does the trustee describe the conduct
constituting fraud. 	Without a particularized showing of the circumstances constituting actual
fraud, the court finds that the allegations in the complaint fail to satisfy the pleading
requirements of Rule 9(b).
Second, the Defendant contends that the trustee has failed to sufficiently plead
allegations of constructive fraud pursuant to § 548(a)(1)(B). Section 548(a)(1)(B) allows for the
avoidance of certain transfers in which the debtor “received less than reasonably equivalent
value” and either (I) was or became insolvent on the date of the transfer; (II) became
insufficiently capitalized following the transfer; (III) intended to incur debts that would be
beyond its ability to repay; or (IV) made such transfer for the benefit of an insider under an
employment contract and not in the ordinary course of business. 11 U.S.C. § 548(a)(1)(B). Rule
9(b) does not apply to claims for avoidance of constructively fraudulent transfers because such
claims are not based on actual fraud but instead rely on the debtor’s financial condition and the
sufficiency of consideration provided by the transferee. In re Derivium Capital, LLC, 380 B.R.
429, 439 (Bankr. D.S.C. 2006) (citing In re Verestar, Inc., 343 B.R. 444, 459 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.
2006)). Rather, § 548(a)(1)(B) claims must satisfy Rule 8(a) and the heightened pleading
standard introduced in Twombly and Iqbal. It follows that claims to avoid constructively
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fraudulent transfers must assert factual allegations which show that relief is plausible.
The Amended Complaint alleges that, with respect to transfers alleged to be fraudulent,
the transferors “received less than reasonably equivalent value in exchange from the defendant
for the fraudulent transfers.” The Amended Complaint also alleges that these transferors were
“insolvent on the date of each fraudulent transfer or became insolvent as a result of the
fraudulent transfers.” The court finds that the trustee’s allegations mirror the elements of §
548(a)(1)(B). However, the trustee fails to support such allegations with factual assertions other
than dates, amounts, and names of transferees included in Exhibit A. Missing from the
Amended Complaint is an identification of the consideration received by each transferor,
information as to why the value of such consideration was less than the amount transferred, and
facts supporting the debtors’ insolvency at the time of the transfer. In the absence of such factual
assertions, the trustee’s claims based on constructive fraud fail to meet the Rule 8(a) pleading
standard.
3. Conclusion
Based on the foregoing, the Defendant’s motion to dismiss the trustee’s claims to avoid
alleged preferential transfers is GRANTED. The Defendant’s motion to dismiss the trustee’s
claims to avoid alleged fraudulent transfers under § 548(a)(1)(A) and (B) is GRANTED.
However, the court grants permission for the trustee to re-plead his claims against the Defendant
according to the pleading standards expressed in this order and in Angell v. BER Care, Inc., et
al., No. L-08-00174-8-JRL (Bankr. E.D.N.C. Jul. 23, 2009). The trustee shall have 30 days from
the date of this order in which to file a second amended complaint. Once the trustee has filed his
second amended complaint, the Defendant will have 20 days in which to answer.
“END OF DOCUMENT”
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