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Supreme Court to Rule on Waiver of Sovereign Immunity for Suits Under Section 544(b)(1)

To resolve a circuit split, the Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a trustee can sue the government to recover a fraudulent transfer under state law when sovereign immunity would bar an ‘actual creditor’ from suing.

As Subsequent Transferees, Churches Must Cough Up Fraudulent Transfers

Judge Huennekens explained that a church’s immunity for receipt of a constructively fraudulent transfer only applies if the transferor was an individual and the transferor was the debtor.

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