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IN RE SULLIVAN

No. 11-1830.

674 F.3d 65 (2012)

In re David SULLIVAN and Luz Eneida Sullivan, Debtors. L. Jed Berliner, Movant, Appellant, v. Denise M. Pappalardo, Trustee, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 21, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Jed Berliner , with whom Meghan R. Bristol and Berliner Law Firm were on brief, for appellant.

Lynne F. Riley , with whom Riley Law Group LLC was on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, SOUTER, Associate Justice, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Asserting that the legal fees awarded for professional services rendered in a Chapter 13 proceeding were too meager, a bankruptcy attorney challenges the award. The district court rejected his importunings, and so do we.

The facts are straightforward. Late in 2008, the debtors, David Sullivan and his wife, Luz Eneida Sullivan, engaged the appellant, L. Jed Berliner, to represent them in bankruptcy proceedings. At the

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