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In re Advanced Marketing Services, Inc., 360 B.R. 421 (Bankr. D. Del. 2007) (Judge Christopher S. Sontchi)

Simon & Schuster asserted a reclamation demand in excess of $5 million, and filed an adversary Complaint against the debtor to enforce its reclamation rights. In support of the complaint, Simon & Schuster sought a temporary restraining order to prevent the debtor from selling its goods. The court denied the application for the TRO, finding that the goods that were the object of the reclamation demand were subject to a prior, superior security interest of the debtors’ pre-petition and post-petition lenders. Accordingly, S&S was unable to show that it had a likelihood of success on the merits.

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FSQ, Inc. v. Integrated Health Servs., Inc. (In re Integrated Health Servs., Inc.), 358 B.R. 637 (Bankr. D. Del. 2007) (Judge Mary F. Walrath)

FSQ sued the Debtors to recover $1,268,762 in payments allegedly due to FSQ by the Debtors’ estates with respect to a reconciliation of claims during a period in which FSQ managed the Debtors’ health-care facilities. The parties filed cross motions for summary judgment. The Court denied FSQ’s motion, and granted the Debtors’ motion for summary judgment, find that the claims asserted by FSQ had been released pursuant to agreements between the parties that settled all claims arising during the time that FSQ managed the Debtors’ facilities, and prior to FSQ being granted licenses to operate the facilities themselves.

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Official Comm. of Unsecured Creditors of the IT Group, Inc. v. Acres of Diamonds, L.P. (In re the IT Group, Inc.), 359 B.R. 97 (Bankr. D. Del. 2006) (Judge Mary F. Walrath)

Within a year prior to the petition date of the IT Group, Inc. debtors, defendant Acres of Diamonds L.P. sold to Organic Waste Technologies, Inc. five shares of the common stock of Keystone Recovery, Inc. Organic Waste paid for the shares by making a wire transfer of $575,000 from debtor IT Corporation’s Citibank account. Prior to confirmation of the debtors’ Chapter 11 plan, the debtors commenced a preference action against Acres, seeking to avoid and recover the $575,000 payment. The complaint was thereafter amended to add a fraudulent transfer cause of action, and amended again to drop the preference claim. 

The court granted Acres’ motion for summary judgment, finding that the transfer was a payment for securities, made by a financial institution, and therefore excepted from avoidance under section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code.

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New Value Must Remain Unpaid?  It's Time to Resole New York City Shoes.  ABI Journal, Vol. XXV, No. 9, November 2006.  Co-authored by: Carl N. Kunz, III.

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