Legal Opinion
In Re: Top Grade Sausage, Inc., Debtor (99-5383)
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 12, 2000No. 99-5383, 99-5402PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ROTH, Circuit Judge.
Prior to the passage of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994, the Bankruptcy Code expressly, authorized the Bankruptcy Court to award fees and expenses from the debtor’s estate to the debtor’s attorneys. The. Reform Act omitted debtors’ attorneys from the list' of officers eligible to receive such an award. See 11 U.S.C. § 330 (1994). We are now confronted with the inevitable question of whether a debt- or’s attorney remains eligible for compensation from the estate. We conclude that debtors’ attorneys are still 2 eligible to receive compensation for fees…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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