ASM Capital, LP v. Ames Department Stores, Inc. (In Re Ames Department Stores, Inc.)

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• \Statutory interpretation always begins with the plain language of the statute ....\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[T]he mandatory terms in which section 503(b) is drafted, requiring courts to allow requests for administrative expenses, suggest a conflict with section 502(d)’s equally mandatory disallowance of claims.”
• “Statutory interpretation always begins with the plain 21 language of the statute . . . .” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[SJection 502(d), like sections 502(a) and (b), ordinarily applies only to prepetition claims.”
• “[M] ore importantly, the Bankruptcy Code gives a higher priority to requests for administrative expenses than to prepetition claims in order to encourage third parties to supply goods and services on credit to the estate, to the benefit of all of the estate’s creditors.”

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