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Van Dorn Retail v. Jim's Oxford Shop, 94-1746 (1995)

Court: Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Number: 94-1746 Visitors: 8
Filed: Jan. 23, 1995
Latest Update: Mar. 02, 2020
Summary: January 23, 1995 [NOT FOR PUBLICATION] UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT , ____________________ No. 94-1746 VAN DORN RETAIL MANAGEMENT, INC., Plaintiff, Appellee, v. JIM'S OXFORD SHOP, INC. AND LOUIS GEORGOPOULOS, Defendants, Appellants.
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January 23, 1995
[NOT FOR PUBLICATION]

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT

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No. 94-1746

VAN DORN RETAIL MANAGEMENT, INC.,

Plaintiff, Appellee,

v.

JIM'S OXFORD SHOP, INC. AND LOUIS GEORGOPOULOS,

Defendants, Appellants.

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APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

[Hon. Joseph A. DiClerico, Jr., U.S. District Judge] ___________________

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Selya, Circuit Judge, _____________

Bownes, Senior Circuit Judge, ____________________

and Cyr, Circuit Judge. _____________

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Paul McEachern, with whom Shaines & McEachern was on brief for _______________ ____________________
appellants.
Richard V. Wiebusch, with whom W. Scott O'Connell and Hale and ____________________ __________________ ________
Dorr were on brief for appellee. ____


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Per Curiam. Appellants, a commercial borrower and its Per Curiam. __________

guarantor, assert two basic challenges to the adverse deficiency

judgment awarded to appellee, the secured party, following a

court-ordered, post-default sale of non-consumer collateral

securing the borrower's indebtedness to appellee. Appellants

insist that no deficiency is recoverable because a court-ordered

"Going Out of Business Sale" is inconsistent with a secured

party's disposition of collateral under U.C.C. 9-504 and

appellee failed to conduct the sale in a commercially reasonable

manner. See id. 9-504(3). ___ ___

The first claim is emphatically precluded by Uniform

Commercial Code 9-501, which expressly provides that the

secured party, upon default by the debtor, shall have the rights

and remedies provided in U.C.C. 9-501 through 9-507, see ___

U.C.C. 9-501(1), including the right to enforce its security

interest as stated in the security agreement, id. 9-501(2), and ___

to invoke judicial procedure in aid of a sale authorized by the

security agreement, see id. 9-207(4). As the security agree- ___ ___

ment between appellee and the borrower expressly authorized a

"Going Out of Business Sale," and the district court merely

required appellants to permit the sale to proceed as authorized

under the security agreement (as well as U.C.C. 9-504), there

was no inconsistency between the rights and remedies available to

appellee under the security agreement and those afforded it by

U.C.C. 9-504, let alone a waiver of its right to recover a

deficiency. Furthermore, since a careful review of the entire


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record on appeal fully supports the district court's finding that

the sale was in all respects commercially reasonable, appellants'

second claim fails as well.

Accordingly, the district court judgment is summarily _______________________________________________________

affirmed pursuant to Local Rule 27.1. Costs to appellee. ____________________________________ _________________












































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