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IN RE McKEEMAN

BAP No. 99-6029 NE.

236 B.R. 667 (1999)

In re William E. McKEEMAN, Lynn N. McKeeman, Debtors. James Edward Bachman, Appellant, v. Kathleen Laughlin, Trustee, Appellee.

United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 3, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Bachman, Omaha, NE, for appellant.

Marilyn Abbott, Omaha, NE, for appellee.

Before WILLIAM A. HILL, SCHERMER, DREHER, Bankruptcy Judges.

SCHERMER, Bankruptcy Judge.

Debtors' Chapter 13 counsel appeals the bankruptcy court's1 order reducing his attorney fee request on the grounds that the court abused its discretion by considering the hourly rate and number of hours typically charged in a Nebraska Chapter 13 case and by refusing to award compensation at counsel's full hourly rate for travel time. Because the court made a lodestar calculation in determining reasonable compensation...

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