Decision Diagnostics Corp (DECN)

[loanranger]

I'm having just as much fun but without the expensive reminder :o)

FWIW there should be no difference between brokers in the handling of the dividend shares. A holder in an Ameritrade account should be able to sell them just as easily, or with an equal amount of difficulty, as a holder in a Schwab account.
If the company has facilitated the release of a restriction on the behalf of one shareholder it would be required to do the same for another or risk legal action. Of course there's no way to know if that happened.
I have not heard of a broker releasing restricted shares without first having an interaction with the holder or the company before this. It does not happen merely by the passage of time....even if it did, brokers have the same obligations under the law.

Anyone who is being told that the dividend shares are not available for trading at this point should be asking their brokers exactly why not....assuming that they care enough to do so.