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IN RE TROPICAL SPORTSWEAR INT'L CORP.

No. 8:04-BK-24134-MGW.

320 B.R. 15 (2005)

In re TROPICAL SPORTSWEAR INT'L CORPORATION, et al., Debtors.

United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Florida, Tampa Division.

January 28, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Denise D. Dell-Powell, Esq., Michael P. Horan, Esq., Erik P. Kimball, Esq., Akerman Senterfitt, Tampa, FL, for Debtors.

Michael J. Sage, Esq., Shannon Lowry Nagle, Esq., Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, LLP, New York, NY, John D. Emmanuel, Esq., Donald R. Kirk, Esq., Fowler, White, Boggs Banker, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors.

Russell S. Bogue, III, Esq., Hunton & Williams LLP, Atlanta, GA, for the CIT Group/Commercial Service, Inc.

Robert B. Glenn, Esq., Glenn, Rasmussen, Fogarty & Hooker, P.A., Tampa, FL, Sarah R. Borders, Esq., Jonathan W. Jordan, Esq., King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA, for SunTrust Bank, as Indenture Trustee.

Brian K. Gart, Esq., Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Perry Ellis International, Inc.

Robert A. Soriano, Esq., Carlton Fields, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Critical Vendor Avondale Mills, Inc.

Don M. Stichter, Esq., Scott A. Stichter, Esq., Stichter, Riedel, Blain & Prosser, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Critical Vendors Burlington Worldwide and Galey & Lord, Inc.

Benjamin E. Lambers, Esq., Tampa, FL, Assistant United States Trustee.

MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER APPROVING PAYMENT OF CRITICAL VENDORS

MICHAEL G. WILLIAMSON, Bankruptcy Judge.

"[S]atisfaction of a pre-petition debt in order to keep `critical' supplies flowing is a use of property other than in the ordinary course of administering an estate in bankruptcy" under section 363(b)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code. In re Kmart Corporation, 359 F.3d 866, 872 (7th Cir.2004). However, because...

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