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Mechanic's lien and bond rights in bankruptcy preference cases.(credit column)

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Can a paid construction supplier or subcontractor be worse off under the Bankruptcy Code than if unpaid? If a construction material supplier could enforce mechanic's lien or bond rights to successfully obtain payment after a bankruptcy petition, could receipt of the same payment prepetition be an avoidable preference? The United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina is faced with these questions in at least two cases at the moment.

This District Court ruled in 1996 in Precision Walls, Inc. v. Crampton that a creditor would have to return an alleged preferential payment, unless it had actually perfected the mechanic's lien (filed in the ...

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