Klein v. Roe, No. 21-4065 (10th Cir. 2023)
Annotate this CaseAppellants were salespersons who sold solar lenses to investors on behalf of RaPower-3, LLC, International Automated Systems, Inc. (“IAS”), LTB1, LLC and their subsidiaries (collectively, the “Receivership Entities”). Appellants appealed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of R. Wayne Klein, the Receiver who controlled the Receivership Entities. In an adjunct action, the government filed suit against Receivership Defendants Nelson Johnson and R. Gregory Shepard for allegedly operating a fraudulent and unlawful solar energy tax scheme in which they encouraged investors to take federal tax deductions for purchasing defunct solar technology. The district court enjoined the entities from continuing to promote the scheme, ordered disgorgement of their gross receipts, and appointed Klein as the Receiver with full control of their assets and business operations. The Receiver then filed suits against individuals and entities (including Appellants) that were paid commissions for selling the Receiver Defendants’ solar lenses to investors. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the Receiver on his claims. Appellants appealed, arguing the district court erred in granting summary judgment on the Receiver’s Uniform Voidable Transaction Act (“UTVA”) claim, as Appellants allegedly gave reasonably equivalent value for the commissions they received. They also claimed the court’s disgorgement order was improper. Finding no reversible error, however, the Tenth Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgment.
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