{"id":166,"date":"2026-03-16T10:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/businessreorganizationfinancialrestructuring\/?p=166"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:26:20","slug":"when-can-a-one-letter-mistake-written-before-a-bankruptcy-cost-500000-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/businessreorganizationfinancialrestructuring\/2026\/03\/16\/when-can-a-one-letter-mistake-written-before-a-bankruptcy-cost-500000-after\/","title":{"rendered":"When Can a One-Letter Mistake Written Before a Bankruptcy Cost $500,000 After?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/catherineebeideman.html\">Catherine Beideman Heitzenrater<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/mariebauer.html\">Marie Bauer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>East Texas Machining &amp; Manufacturing, LLC v. STV Engine 011, LLC, et al.<\/em>, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Texas considered a motion for partial summary judgment filed by plaintiff-debtor East Texas Machining &amp; Manufacturing LLC against STV Engine 001 LLC, Axle Box Innovations LLC and Texas Tactical Machining &amp; Manufacturing LLC in an adversary proceeding within ETMM\u2019s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. The court granted ETMM\u2019s motion based on a one-letter mistake in STV\u2019s UCC-1 financing statement and found that STV\u2019s $500,000 security interest was unperfected and therefore invalid and avoidable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/when_can_one_letter_mistake_written_before_bankruptcy_cost_500000_after_0326.html\">Read the full <em>Alert<\/em> on the Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Catherine Beideman Heitzenrater and\u00a0Marie Bauer In East Texas Machining &amp; Manufacturing, LLC v. STV Engine 011, LLC, et al., the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Texas considered a motion for partial summary judgment filed by plaintiff-debtor East Texas Machining &amp; Manufacturing LLC against STV Engine 001 LLC, Axle Box Innovations &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/businessreorganizationfinancialrestructuring\/2026\/03\/16\/when-can-a-one-letter-mistake-written-before-a-bankruptcy-cost-500000-after\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Can a One-Letter Mistake Written Before a Bankruptcy Cost $500,000 After?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6],"ppma_author":[37],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bankruptcy"],"authors":[{"term_id":37,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/businessreorganizationfinancialrestructuring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/businessreorganizationfinancialrestructuring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/businessreorganizationfinancialrestructuring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/businessreorganizationfinancialrestructuring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/businessreorganizationfinancialrestructuring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/businessreorganizationfinancialrestructuring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/businessreorganizationfinancialrestructuring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/businessreorganizationfinancialrestructuring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/businessreorganizationfinancialrestructuring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/businessreorganizationfinancialrestructuring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}