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U.S. TRUSTEE v. PRICE WATERHOUSE

No. 93-3337.

19 F.3d 138 (1994)

UNITED STATES TRUSTEE, Appellant, v. PRICE WATERHOUSE; Sharon Steel Corporation; Sharon Specialty Steel Inc.; Monessen Inc.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided March 16, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank W. Hunger, Asst. Atty. Gen., William Kanter, and Robert M. Loeb (argued), Attys., Appellate Staff, U.S. Dept. of Justice Civ. Div., and Martha L. Davis, Gen. Counsel, and Anastasia M. Petrou, Atty., Executive Office for U.S. Trustees, Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for appellant.

Herbert P. Minkel, Jr. (argued), Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York City, for appellees.

Before: STAPLETON, COWEN, and ALITO, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALITO, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a district court order affirming a bankruptcy court order that approved the employment by several debtors in possession of an accounting firm that had a claim against their estates for prepetition services. Applying the plain language of 11 U.S.C. § 327(a) and related provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, we hold that the district court and the bankruptcy court erred, and we therefore reverse...

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