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Hechinger Inv. Co. of Del. v. Universal Forest Prods., Inc. (In re Hechinger Inv. Co. of Del.), 489 F.3d 568 (3d Cir. 2007) (Circuit Judge Marjorie O. Rendell)

The Third Circuit reversed a Bankruptcy Court decision in an avoidance and recovery action brought by debtors Hechinger Investment Company of Delaware against Universal Forest Products, Inc. that held that the contemporaneous exchange for new value defense to a preference cause of action was not available where the parties intended a credit relationship. Instead, the Third Circuit found that this defense applies to little other than a credit relationship, and remanded to the Bankruptcy Court for a determination of whether the parties intended that the payments in question were intended by the parties to be contemporaneous exchange for new value.

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In re Kaiser Aluminum Corp., 456 F.3d 328 (3d Cir. 2006) (Circuit Judge Marjorie O. Rendell)

In this issue of first impression in the circuit courts, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that when an employer in Chapter 11 seeks voluntarily to terminate multiple pension plans under ERISA’s “reorganization test,” a court must consider termination of the plans in the aggregate, rather than on a plan-by-plan basis.

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