Gray v. Commissioners of District of Columbia

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• holding that the party seeking the administrative expense bears the burden of proof.
• stating that the Chapter 7 trustee requires considerable discretion to administer the liquidation of the estate for the benefit of creditors
• finding that assumed prepetition and new postpetition contracts are functionally analogous
• applying bankruptcy law to question whether, for the purposes of an administrative priority claim, damages resulting from a breach of a post-petition lease arose from transaction occurring post-petition
• observing general \presumption in bankruptcy cases that all of a debtor’s limited resources will be equally distributed among credi- tors\
• describing assumed contract is assumed, the debtor must “pay the amounts that come due under the contract as administrative expenses of the estate.”31 If a trustee (or debtor in possession in chapter 11 cases) assumes an executory contract under section 365(d

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