Marathon Petroleum Co. v. Aaron R. Cohe

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• stating the elements as “(1) a post-petition transfer (2) of estate property (3) which was not authorized by the Bankruptcy Code or the court.”
• stating the elements as “(1) a post-petition transfer (2) of estate property (3) which was not authorized by the Bankruptcy Code or the court.”
• reiterating Section 549’s two- exception paradigm and holding that “a ‘harmless’ exception to a trustee’s Section 549(a) avoiding powers does not exist.”
• “Congress knew how to create exceptions based on transferee's status and culpability. But it chose not to do so when it came to initial transferees of post-petition transfers… We will not create such exceptions in Congress's absence.”
• “Congress knew how to create exceptions based on transferee's status and culpability. But it chose not to do so when it came to initial transferees of [unauthorized] post-petition transfers …. We will not create such exceptions in Congress's absence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).