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                  IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                         FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
                        _____________________________   FILED
                                                         U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                                     No. 04-13367          ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
                            _____________________________ AUGUST 12, 2005
                                                            THOMAS K. KAHN
                                                                 CLERK
           D. C. Docket Nos. 04-00249-CV-WBH-1 & 01-67106 BKC-JB

IN RE: DOT MD, LLC

                                                                          Debtor.
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FRANK M. WEYER, as assignee of the
Judgements of East Coast Internet and
Internet.MD, Inc.,

                                                             Plaintiff-Appellant,

       versus

MORTON LEVINE, Chapter 11 Trustee
for the estate of Dot MD, LLC,

                                                             Defendant-Appellee.

                  _________________________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Northern District of Georgia
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                                       (August 12, 2005)
Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, BIRCH and COX, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

      Frank M. Weyer, a creditor of Dot MD, LLC, appeals the district court’s

affirmance of the bankruptcy court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of

Morton P. Levine, the bankruptcy trustee. The bankruptcy court determined that

Weyer’s judgment lien did not attach to proceeds of a settlement agreement

between the Trustee and MoldData. In re DotMD, LLC, 303 B.R. 519 (Bankr.

N.D. Ga. 2003). Because the proceeds from MoldData’s agreement with the

trustee were not from the sale of assets that Dot MD properly or presently held,

but represented a settlement -- at least in part -- of disputed contractual claims, we

conclude that the bankruptcy court did not err in determining that the creditor’s

judgment did not attach to the proceeds. See O.C.G.A. § 44-12-20; Prodigy

Centers/Atlanta v. T-C Assocs., 501 S.E.2d 209, 211 n.3 (1998).

      AFFIRMED.

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