CHAMPION PARTS<CREB> ASKS DECLARATORY JUDGMENT Champion Parts Rebuilders Inc said it asked the Federal District Court in Chicago for a declaratory judgment upholding its recent 5.4 mln dlr sale of common shares and warrants to Echlin Inc <ECH>. Champion said in hearings Thursday morning before the federal judge on its lawsuit charging federal securities law violations against Cormier Corp, Odilon Cormier, Morris Navon and other defendants, the Cormier-Navon defendants indicated they would challenge the transaction. Champion's suit claims that various Champion investors alligned themselves with Cormier and Navon who failed to disclose properly under federal laws that they were acting in concert and they intended to spin off parts of the company and sell the balance within two years once they got control.