No. 25-272

Andy Luu Tran v. Herbert Jacobs

Lower Court: First Circuit
Docketed: 2025-09-10
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: bankruptcy-code deed-validity land-records mortgage-foreclosure state-law transfer-avoidance
Latest Conference: 2025-10-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the transfer avoidance provisions of the bankruptcy code should give way to state law regarding transfers and whether an Affidavit of Sale suffices to thwart an avoidance under bankruptcy law when the accompanying deed is void under state law

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. Whether the transfer avoidance provisions of the bankruptcy code should give way to state law regarding transfers? 2. Whether an Affidavit of Sale, resulting from a mortgage foreclosure auction, suffices to thwart an avoidance under bankruptcy law when the deed accompanying the affidavit is void under state law for lack of a notarization, and recording the affidavit in the land records without a valid deed does not result in perfection of the transfer?

Docket Entries

2025-10-20
Petition DENIED.
2025-10-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/17/2025.
2025-09-22
Waiver of right of respondent Herbert to respond filed.
2025-08-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 10, 2025)

Attorneys

Andy Tran
David Glenn BakerG., Petitioner
David Glenn Baker — Petitioner
Herbert
Jacobs F. WillisFidelity National Law Group, Respondent
Jacobs F. WillisFidelity National Law Group, Respondent