In the Matter of Milwaukee Engraving Company, Incorporated, Debtor. Appeal of Ira Bodenstein, United States Trustee

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• noting that section 327(a) “permits a trustee or debtor in possession to ‘employ one or more attorneys .... ’ ”
• explaining, at length, the error of relying upon the dictum in Grabill after Singson definitively rejected this route
• “By making express provision for employment under § 327, payment under § 330, and priority under § 503(b)(2), the Code logically forecloses the possibility of treating § 503(b)(1)(A) as authority to pay (and give priority to
• “Although the bankruptcy judge believed that applying the Code literally would be inequitable, ‘[b]ankruptcy courts are not authorized in the name of equity to make wholesale substitution of underlying law * * * but are limited to what the Bankruptcy Code itself provides.’”
• rejecting equity exception in section 503(b)(1)(A)

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