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Opinion
Filed
Feb. 8, 2019
Case
Summitbridge Nat'l Invs. III, LLC v. Faison
Case status
Decided

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PAMELA HARRIS, Circuit Judge: The question in this appeal is whether the Bankruptcy Code bars a creditor from asserting an unsecured claim for attorneys' fees, if those fees are incurred after the filing of a bankruptcy petition but guaranteed by a pre-petition contract. We join other federal courts of appeals in holding that the Code does not preclude such claims. Accordingly, we rever…

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