United States Seventh Circuit

Transactions involving tax income return Refund Anticipation Loans were "ordinary as between parties" and, when measured against the tax refund loan industry as a whole according to ordinary business terms, are insulated from avoidance under Bankruptcy Code section 547(c)(2).

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/24/2003
• Decided 06/30/2003
• Published 06/30/2003

Judges

• TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert L. Nicholson (argued), Beckman Lawson, Fort Wayne, IN, for Yvette Kleven, Mark A. Warsco and David R. DuBois., Charles H. Carpenter (argued), Pepper Hamilton, Washington, DC, for Household Bank F.S.B.