In Re Burlington Motor Holdings, Inc.

HELEN S. BALICE, Chief Judge.

This is the court’s Opinion on various applications for allowance of compensation and reimbursement of expenses (the fee applications). These are core matters. 28 U.S.C. § 157(b)(2)(A) & (B).

I. Procedural Background

A fee auditor was employed in this case. With respect to the applications discussed below, the fee auditor recommended approval of the applications at amounts that represented either no reduction from the amounts requested, or insignificant reductions from those amounts. The resulting fee and expense numbers were noticed for a hearing. One objection was…