IN RE 360 NETWORKS (USA) INC.

No. 01 B 13721 (ALG).

282 B.R. 756 (2001)

In re 360 NETWORKS (USA) INC., et al., Debtors.

United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. New York.

October 26, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Alan Abrams, Esanu, Katsky, Korins & Siger, LLP, New York City, for DCB Construction Co., Peak Electrical Construction and Piper Electric Co.

Joseph W. Allen, Jaeckle, Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP, Buffalo, NY, for Lehigh Const. Group, Inc.

Christopher L. Ashby, Houston, TX, for Ixian Fiberoptics, Inc.

Elizabeth Austin, Pullman & Comley, LLC, Bridgeport, CT, for Herb Chambers of Chicopee, Inc.

John H. Bae, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York City, for Carrier 1 Intern. GmbH.

Richard Baumfield, Andrews & Kurth, LLP, New York City, for Aspen Advisors, LLC.

Michael W. Bautz, Postner & Rubin, New York City, for Cadence McShane Corp.

Philip C. Baxa, Troutman, Sanders, Mays & Valentine, LLP, Richmond, VA, for Troutman, Sanders, Mays & Valentine, LLP.

Frederic K. Becker, Eric W. Sleeper, Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, PA, Woodbridge, NJ, for New Jersey Turnpike Authority.

J. Thomas Beckett, Parsons, Behle & Latimer, Salt Lake City, UT, for Sorenson Const. Co.

Christopher Robert Belmonte, Satterlee, Stephens, Burke & Burke, LLP, New York City, for Turner Const. Co.

Beth C. Boggs, Boggs, Backer & Bates, L.L.C., St. Louis, MO, for River Bend Contractors, Inc.

William H. Bovers, Brooklyn, NY, for M.W. Reid Welding, Inc.

Thomas R. Califano, Piper, Marbury, Rudnick & Wolfe, LLP, New York City, for Consolidated Networks Corp.

Andre K. Campbell, McDonough, Holland & Allen, Sacramento, CA, Jeffrey A. Cooper, Carella, Byrne, Bain, Gilfillan, Cecchi, Stewart & Olstein, Roseland, NJ, for Manuel Bros., Inc.

Shelley C. Chapman, Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, New York City, Alan Jay Lipkin, Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, New York City, for 360 Networks (USA) Inc.

J. Mark Chevallier, McGuire, Craddock & Strother, P.C., Dallas, TX, for Turner Const. Co.

Walter J. Cicack, Houston, TX, for GigXchange, LLC.

Robert D. Clark, Denver, CO, for Colorado Dept. of Transportation.

Andrew N. Cook, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, PLLC, Washington, DC, for AES Electrical, Inc. and Ceilings and Partitions, Inc.

Sara E. Cook, McKenna, Storer, Rowe, White & Farrug, Woodstock, IL, for The ServiceMaster Co.

Jeanette Cotting, L., Stoel Rives, LLP, Portland, OR, for PacifiCorp.

Phil D'Aniello, Broad & Cassel, P.A., Orlando, FL, for EWE Office Investments.

Michael Deitch, Michael Deitch & Associates, Austin, TX, for McPAC CCS, Ltd. L.P.

Ira S. Dizengoff, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, New York City, for EPIK Communications, Inc.

John Howard Drucker, Angel & Frankel, P.C., New York City, for DPR Construction Inc.

David W. Dykhouse, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP, New York City, for Ledcor Industries Ltd., Ledcor Design-Build (B.C.) Inc., Ledcor Industries Inc. and Ledcor American Holdings Ltd.

Edmund M. Emrich, Kaye Scholer, LLP, New York City, for Rohn, Inc.

Terry Esser, Law Offices of Terry Esser, Tucson, AZ, for Tierra Right Way of Services, Ltd.

Peter L. Feldman, Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen, New York City, for M.A. Mortenson Co.

William M. Finucane, Elizabeth Town, NY, for John W. Sheehan & Sons, Inc.

Michael E. Foreman, Proskauer Rose, LLP, New York City, Alcatel, Alcatel Submarine Networks S.A. and Alcatel Submarine Networks, Inc.

Wilbur F. Foster, Jr., Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York City, for Enron Broadband Services, Inc. and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP.

Edward M. Fox, Pryor, Cashman, Sherman & Flynn, LLP, New York City, Richard Levy, Jr., Pryor, Cashman, Sherman & Flynn, LLP, New York City, for Embree Const. Group, Inc., Canadian Pacific Railroad Co., Soo Line Railroad Co., and Delaware & Hudson Railway Co.

Elise Scherr Frejka, Swidler, Berlin, Shereff, Friedman, LLP, New York City, for Kajima Const. Services, Inc.

Jane Futterman, Olympia, WA, for Thurston County.

Robert E. Ganz, Ganz & Wolkenbreit, LLP, Albany, NY, Richard L. Weisz, Hodgson, Russ, Andrews, Woods & Goodyear, Albany, NY, for Vincent Crisafulli.

Seth Evan Gardner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City, for Chase Manhatten Bank, Chase Securities, Inc., Credit Suisse First Boston Corp., Goldman Sachs Credit Partners, L.P., Toronto Dominion (Texas), Inc., Export Development Corp., as Agents, and JPMorgan Chase Bank.

Teresa A. Generous, Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., St. Louis, MI, for Fru-Con Const. Corp.

Yann Geron, Geron & Associates, P.C., New York City, for Fresno Supreme, Inc.

Peter Goodman, Andrews & Kurth, LLP, New York City, for Enron Broadband Services, Inc.

Stephen Joshua Gordon, Dechert, Price & Rhoads, New York City, for W9/MT4 Realty, LLC.

Garry M. Graber, Hodgson Russ LLP, Buffalo, NY, for C. Destro Development Co., Inc.

Lindsee Paige Granfield, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York City, for Nortel Networks, Inc. and Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.

David M. Green, Salomon, Green & Ostrow, P.C., New York City, for Wooldridge Const. Co., LLC.

Ralph V. Hadley, III, Swann & Hadley, P.A., Winter Park, FL, for 325 West Gore, Inc.

Kyle E. Hart, Fabyanske, Westra & Hart, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, for Mark II of Fosston, Inc.

J. Stephen Harvey, McDowell, Knight, Roedder & Sledge, L.L.C., Mobile, AL, for Old West Florida, LLC.

Mark S. Indelicato, Hahn & Hessen LLP, New York City, for CapRock Telecommunications Corp.

Christine Jagde, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, New York City, for Toronto Dominion (Texas), Inc.

Richard G. Jensen, Fabyanske, Westra & Hart, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, for Northern Line Layers.

Harold D. Jones, Jaspan, Schlesinger, Hoffman, LLP, Garden City, NY, for CP/HERS Somerville Corp.

Frank P. Kapusinski, Scarinci & Hollenbeck, LLC, Secaucus, NJ, for City of Passaic.

Susan V. Kelly, Michael, Best & Friedrich, LLP, Madison, WI, for Kajima Const. Services, Inc.

Steven E. Kennedy, McGuire, Craddock & Strother, PC, Dallas, TX, for Turner Const. Co.

Norman N. Kinel, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, LLP, New York City, for Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, LLP, Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, and Ernst & Young Corporate Finance LLC.

Martin Beyer Klotz, Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, New York City, for 360 Networks (USA) Inc.

John R. Knapp, Jr., Preston, Gates & Ellis, LLP, Seattle, WA, for pro se.

Aaron E. Kornblum, Douglas Smart, Graham & Dunn, PC, Seattle, WA, for Sixth & Blanchard Properties and Sixth & Virginia Properties.

Stephen Kottmeier, J., Hopkins & Carley, San Jose, CA, for O.C. McDonald and Fluor Global Services.

Jerry M. Kuperstein, Sacramento, CA, for Rex Moore Electrical Constractors & Engineers.

David W. Langley, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Hypower, Inc.

Linda S. Law, Office of City Attorney, Portland, OR, for The City of Portland (Oregon).

Ronald M. Lehman, Gabroy, Rollman & Bosse, PC, Tucson, AZ, for Ollanik Const. Co., Inc.

David S. Leinwand, Amroc Investments, LLC, New York City, for Amroc Investments, LLC.

Ira M. Levee, Lowenstein Sandler, P.C., Roseland, NJ, for Securities Class Action Plaintiffs.

Martin J. Levick, Kritzer & Levick, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Kritzer & Levick, P.C.

David A. Levin, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York City, for Wooldridge Const. Co. LLC.

Paul A. Levine, Lemery Greisler LLC, Albany, NY, for CHA Tech Services and Clough Harbour.

Joel H. Levitin, Dechert, Price & Rhoads, New York City, for Dechert.

Joseph Lubertazzi, Jr., McCarter & English, LLP, Newark, NJ, for Lucent Technologies, Inc.

C. Robert Malaby, Malaby & Carlisle, LLC, New York City, for Embree Const. Group.

Neal S. Mann, New York State Attorney General's Office, New York City, for New York State Dept. of Taxation and Finance.

Ilan Markus, Markowitz, Davis, Ringel & Trusty, P.A., Miami, FL, for EWE Office Investments.

Regina R. Matson, Williamson & Williamson, P.C., New York City, for General Motors Acceptance Corp.

Thomas J. Matz, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, New York City, Michael A. Rosenthal, Gibson, Dunn & Grutcher, LLP, Dallas, TX, for Big Pipe and Big Pipe (US), Inc.

Kathryn E. McQueen, Thelen, Reid & Priest, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Howard S. Wright Const.

Sandra E. Mayerson, Holland & Knight, New York City, for TELUS Integrated Communications (2000), Inc. and TELUS Communications, Inc.

Debbie L. Miede, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly, LLP, Newport Beach, CA, for Miede Sexton, P.C.

Brett H. Miller, Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen, PC, New York City, for H.G. Fenton Co.

Joel L. Miller, Kaye Scholer LLP, Chicago, IL, for Waterton Printers Square LLC.

Zachary Mosner, Attorney General of Washington State, Seattle, WA, for Dept. of Labors and Industries.

Larren M. Nashelsky, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, New York City, for Verio, Inc., Telia Intern. Carrier, Genuity Solutions, Inc., and Deutsche Telekom, Inc.

Bruce S. Nathan, Davidoff & Malito, LLP, New York City, for Sterling Network Exchange LLC and Schooley Caldwell Associates.

Kevin Michael Newman, Menter, Rudin & Trivelpiece, P.C., Syracuse, NY, for Canadian National Railway, Illinois Central Railroad Co. and Grand Trunk Western Railroad, Inc.

Michael E. Norton, Robinson, Murphy & McDonald, New York City, for Bateson-Cook Co.

Edmond P. O'Brien, Stempel, Bennett, Claman & Hochberg, P.C., New York City, for Violet Realty, Inc.

Alec P. Ostrow, Salomon, Green & Ostrow, P.C., New York City, for Pipkin, Inc.

Irving H. Picard, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C., New York City, for EL PASO 221, L.P.

Michael B. Reynolds, Nanette D. Sanders, Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P., Irvine, CA, for Brookstone Telecom, Inc. and Brookstone Const., Inc.

Jeffrey N. Rich, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, LLP, New York City, for Adolfson & Peterson Const. and Big-D Const. Services Corp.

Michael R.C. Riess, Kingsmill Reiss, L.L.C., Mark S. Senter, New Orleans, LA, for Mechanical Const. Co., LLC.

Steven H. Rittmaster, Torre, Lentz, Gamell, Gary & Rittmaster, Jericho, NY, for General Ins. Co. of America and The Guarantee Co. of North America.

Terri A. Roberts, Pima County Attorney Civil Division, Tucson, AZ, for Pima County, Arizona.

Adam L. Rosen, Rosen & Slome, LLP, Garden City, NY, for Spartan Builing Corp.

Joel S. Rosenstein, Sean, Lewis & Visciano, P.C., Denver, CO, for JPI Development L.P.

Jeffrey L. Sapir, White Plains, NY, for Sweet Associates, Inc.

Michael L. Schein, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, et al., New York City, for FiberNet Telecom Group, Inc.

Fred A. Schwartz, Sacramento, CA, for Intern. Telecommunications Consultants, Inc.

Gary I. Selinger, Salomon, Green & Ostrow, P.C., New York City, for NEES Communications, Inc.

Andrew Howard Sherman, Sills, Cummis, Radin, Tischman, Epstein & Gross, New York City, for Qwest Communications, Inc. and 360 Networks (USA) inc.

Eric J. Snyder, Pryor & Mandelup, LLP, Westbury, NY, for 360 Networks (USA) Inc. and Wagner Equipment Co.

Michael Scott Stamer, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Haner & Feld, New York City, for Call-Net Enterprises, Inc. and Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors.

Stephen Z. Starr, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky and Walker, LLP, New York City, for Adesta Communications, Inc.

Kenneth Steven Sussmane, Sussmane & Zapfel P.C., New York City, for 7th and Walnut Street Associates, L.P.

Robert S. Underhill, Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith, Ravin, Davis & Himmel, LLP, Woodbridge, NJ, for Victor AOP, Inc.

Brian C. Walsh, King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA, for Thoroughbred Technology and Telecommunications, Inc.

Burton S. Weston, Law Offices of Burton S. Weston, Great Neck, NY, for Black & Veatch.

Ira E. Wiener, Shearman & Sterling, New York City, for The Fishel Co.

Ian R. Winters, Klestadt & Winters, LLP, New York City, for 350 Park Investors Corp.

David Farrington Yates, Holland & Knight, LLP, New York City, for Fujitsu Network Communications and TELUS Integrated Communications (2000), Inc.

Louis J. Yoppolo, Shindler, Neff, Holmes & Schlageter, Toledo, OH, for Mosser Const. Co. and Retzke/Snyder Electrical Constractors, Inc.

Brian Zall, Sherman & Howard, L.L.C., Denver, CO, for Sturgeon Electrical Co.

Daniel A. Zazove, Kaye Scholer, LLP, Chicago, IL, for Kaye Scholer, LLP.

Greg M. Zipes, Office of the United States Trustee, New York City, United States Trustee.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER

ALLAN L. GROPPER, Bankruptcy Judge.

The Fishel Company ("Fishel") has moved for relief from the automatic stay of § 362 of the Bankruptcy Code to file lawsuits in California and Oregon against one or more of the Debtors. Fishel asserts that it has already obtained construction and mechanic's liens ("Liens") on leasehold interests of the Debtors by virtue of its supply of labor, materials and equipment for the installation...

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