In Re: Top Grade Sausage, Inc., Debtor (99-5383)

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• holding that Chapter 7 debtor's attorneys may be compensated from the estate because the current version of § 330 is ambiguous and \the legislative history does not manifest an intent by Congress to change the long-standing practice of compensating debtors' attor- neys\
• affirming disallowance of fees of debtors’ attorneys as not reasonably bene-fitting the estate because services were rendered solely to debtor out of possession and duplicative of trustee’s work
• abrogated on other grounds by Lamie v. U.S. Trustee , 540 U.S. 526 , 124 S.Ct. 1023 , 157 L.Ed.2d 1024 (2004)
• “[Section] 329 contemplates the prepetition payment of fees to the debtor’s attorney from the debtor [estate], subject to court review for reasonableness.”
• abrogated on other grounds by Lamie v. U.S. Trustee , 540 U.S. 526 , 124 S.Ct. 1023 , 157 L.Ed.2d 1024 (2004) (cited with approval by In re Woerner , 783 F.3d 266 , 275 (5th Cir. 2015) ). Instead, for services to be compensable under § 330(a)(4)(A

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