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[NOT FOR PUBLICATION]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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