Court Opinion

ID: 9481141
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 08:09:28.565322+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:48:07.536191
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HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I would affirm the bankruptcy court and the district court for the reasons given by them in their opinions. The bankruptcy statutes do not specifically give priority to quarterly trustee’s fees and I do not believe there is a sound reason for giving these fees a priority status over other administrative expenses. In my view, § 726(b) simply gives a superpriority to *804administrative expenses that arise after a conversion to Chapter 7. See 3 Collier on Bankruptcy ¶ 507.04[1] (L.King ed. 1990); see also In re Wetmore, 117 B.R. 201 (Bankr.W.D.Pa.1990) (holding that quarterly fees are administrative expenses like § 503(b) claims, and must be subordinated to Chapter 7 administrative expenses).
This is another case in which the trustees are overreaching to get a larger share of the bankruptcy estate than they are entitled to, and do so to the detriment of other administrative claims and of unsecured creditors. For these reasons, I dissent.