2016-04-25_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - C1982056 ‎(12)‎

• Permit No: C1982056
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 4/25/2016
• Doc Name: Motion of the Debtors and Debtors in Possession Pursuant to Sections
• From: United State Bankruptcy
• To: DRMS
• Permit Index Doc Type: General Correspondence
• Email Name: MPB
• Email Name: JRS
• Email Name: JLE
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Case 16-42529 Doc 28 Filed 04/13/16 Entered 04/13/16 11:32:40 Main Document
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(Bankr. E.D. Mo. Feb. 10, 2016) (Docket No. 96) (order authorizing the debtors to pay 20 -day
administrative claims to certain essential suppliers in their discretion without the need for further
court approval); In re Arch Coal, Inc., No. 16-40120 (Bankr. E.D. Mo. Jan. 13, 2016)
(Docket No. 71) (same); accord In re Great Atl. & Pac. Tea Co., No. 15-23007 (Bankr. S. D.N.Y.
July 20, 2015 and Aug. 11, 2015) (Docket Nos. 61 and 503) (interim and final orders authorizing
the debtors to pay 20 -day administrative claims in their discretion without the need for further
court approval); In re Patriot Coal Corp., No. 15-32450 (Bankr. E.D. Va. May 13, 2015 and
June 4, 2015) (Docket Nos. 51 and 236) (same); In re James River Coal Co., No. 14-31848
(Bankr. E.D. Va. Apr. 10, 2014 and May 9, 2014) (Docket Nos. 81 and 243) (same); In re AMF
Bowling Worldwide, Inc., No. 12-36495 (Bankr. E.D. Va. Nov. 14, 2012) (Docket No. 57)
(order authorizing the debtors to pay 20 -day administrative claims in their discretion without the
need for further court approval); In re Patriot Coal Corp., No. 12-12900 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.
July 16, 2012 and Aug. 2, 2012) (Docket Nos. 88 and 257) (interim and final orders authorizing
the debtors to pay 20 -day administrative claims in their discretion without the need for further
court approval); In re Chrysler LLC, No. 09-50002 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. May 5, 2009 and
May 20, 2009) (Docket Nos. 358 and Docket No. 1318) (same).
The Repudiating Vendor Procedures Should Be Authorized
43. The Debtors further request authorization to implement the Repudiating Vendor
Procedures. A number of the Debtors' suppliers, including some of the Debtors' largest suppliers,
are parties to supply agreements with the Debtors. "After a debtor commences a Chapter 11
proceeding, but before executory contracts are assumed or rejected under § 365(a), those
contracts remain in existence, enforceable by the debtor but not against the debtor." United
States ex rel U.S. Postal Serv. v. Dewey Freight Sys., Inc., 31 F.3d 620, 624 (8th Cir. 1994). See
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