People v. Castaneda-Prado

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• holding that district court properly classified tort claim against bankrupt’s receiver as an administrative expense
• holding that district court properly classified tort claim against bankrupt’s receiver as an administrative expense
• concluding that party damaged by fire caused by trustee’s negligence was entitled to administrative priority claim because of “one important, and here decisive, statutory objective: fairness to all persons having claims.”
• holding that actual and necessary costs can include claims for a chapter 11 receiver’s post-petition tort, because such would be an integral and essential element of the continuation of the business
• acknowledging that “[ejxisting creditors are, to be sure, in a dilemma not of their own making”
• noting that the provisions for straight bankruptcies govern priority under an arrangement under the prior Code

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