Blackhawk Network, Inc. v. Alco Stores, Inc. (In re Alco Stores, Inc.)

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING DEBTOR-DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT [DE # 6]

Stacey G.C. Jernigan, United States Bankruptcy Judge

I. INTRODUCTION

“Just as medieval alchemists bent all their energies to discovering a formula that would transmute dross into gold, so too do modern creditors’ lawyers spend prodigious amounts of time and effort seeking to convert their clients’ general, unsecured claims against a bankruptcy debtor into something more substantial.” 1

The above words, penned by Judge Carolyn King more than twenty years ago, seem fitting today in the above-referenced…