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Nature of Suit Code: 422
Nature of Suit: Bankruptcy Appeals Rule 28 USC 158
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FEB ~ 1991 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

In re: REPUBLIC TRUST & SAVINGS ) 

COMPANY, doing business as ) 

Western Trust & Savings ) 

Company; and REPUBLIC ) 

FINANCIAL CORPORATION, ) 

an Oklahoma Corporation, ) 

Debtors. 

R. DOBIE LANGENKAMP, Successor 

Trustee, 

Appellee, 

vs. 

P .A. HACKLER; DELORES HACKLER; 

C • A. CULP; JULIA CULP; CULP 

DISTRIBUTING COMPANY; KENNETH D. 

MOORE; MARY L. MOORE; KEMEL SAIED; 

CONSTANCE G. SAIED; HATTIE LOU 

GESIN; LEROY DENNIS; and JANET 

DENNIS, 

Appellants. 

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ROBERT L HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 88-2182 

APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA 

(D.C. No. 87-C-616-C) 

(consolidated) 

John J. Carwile (Sam G. Bratton II and Richard H. Foster with him 

on the brief), of Doerner, Stuart, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, 

Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Appellee. 

Tony w. Haynie (William E. Rutledge and Deirdre o. Dexter with him 

on the brief), of Conner & Winters, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for 

Appellants. 

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Before LOGAN and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges and SAFFELS, 

District Judge.* 

PER CURIAM. 

In Langenkamp v. Culp, 111 s. Ct. 330 (1990), the Supreme 

Court reversed this court's determination in part IV of our 

opinion in Langenkamp v. Hackler (In re Republic Trust & Sav. 

Co.), 897 F.2d 1041, 1046-47 (lOth Cir. 1990), that those 

appellants1 who filed claims against debtors' bankruptcy estates 

were entitled to a jury trial on whether the payments they 

received from the debtors within ninety days of the latter's 

bankruptcy constituted avoidable preferences. Langenkamp v. Culp, 

111 s. Ct. at 331-332. In Langenkamp v. Culp, we held that the 

district court erred in denying all appellants a jury trial on the 

bankruptcy trustee's preference claims. We were correct in 

deciding that those appellants who did not have or file claims 

against the debtors' bankruptcy estates were entitled to a jury 

trial on the avoidable preference issue. Langenkamp v. Culp, 111 

s. Ct. at 331. We were in incorrect, however, in deciding that 

those appellants who filed claims against the bankruptcy estates 

were likewise entitled to a jury trial. Langenkamp v. Culp, 111 

s. Ct. at 331. Rather, those appellants who filed claims 

* Honorable Dale E. Saffels, United States District Judge for the 

District of Kansas, sitting by designation. 

1 Appellants (creditors) were holders of thrift and passbook 

savings certificates issued by the debtors to represent the 

debtors' promise to repay monies the appellants had invested. 

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submitted to the equitable power of the bankruptcy court and any 

preference action by the trustee was triable solely in equity, as 

part of the claims-allowance process. Id. Filing a claim 

precludes entitlement to a jury trial. Id. 

Parts I, II and III of our opinion, Langenkamp v. Hackler, 

897 F.2d at 1043-46, remain unaffected by the Supreme Court's 

opinion and we reaffirm our disposition of those issues. We 

VACATE the erroneous portion of part IV of our opinion, 897 F.2d 

at 1046-47, 2 in light of the above Supreme Court holding. The 

judgment of the district court is REVERSED and the cause is 

REMANDED for further proceedings consistent with Langenkamp v. 

Culp, 111 S. Ct. 330 and the unvacated portion of our opinion in 

Langenkamp v. Hackler, 897 F.2d 1041. 

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SO ORDERED. 

The following portion of our opinion is vacated. 

Although some of the appellants did file claims against the estates because they continued to have monies 

invested in the debtors at the time of bankruptcy, see 

supra n. 3, we believe they likewise are entitled to a 

jury trial under the rationale of Granfinaciera and 

Katchen. Despite these appellants' claims, the 

trustee's actions to avoid the transfers, consolidated 

by the bankruptcy court, were plenary rather than a part 

of the bankruptcy court's summary proceedings involving the "process of allowance and disallowance of claims.~~ 

Langenkamp v. Hackler, 897 F.2d at 1046-47. 

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