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tions 326, 328, and 329 of this title, the court may award to a trustee, to an examiner, to a professional person employed under section 327 or 1103 of this title, or to the debtor's attorney—
"(1) reasonable compensation for actual, necessary services rendered by such trustee, examiner, professional person, or attorney . . . and by any paraprofessional persons employed by such trustee, professional person, or attorney . . . ; and
"(2) reimbursement for actual, necessary expenses." Ibid. (emphasis added to highlight text later deleted).
Pursuant to the 1994 Act, 11 U. S. C. § 330(a)(1) now reads as follows:
"(a)(1) After notice to the parties in interest and the United States Trustee and a hearing, and subject to sections 326, 328, and 329, the court may award to a trustee, an examiner, a professional person employed under section 327 or 1103—
"(A) reasonable compensation for actual, necessary services rendered by the trustee, examiner, professional person, or attorney and by any paraprofessional person employed by any such person; and
"(B) reimbursement for actual, necessary expenses."
As can be noted, the 1994 enactment's principal, substantive alteration was its deletion of the five words at the end of what was § 330(a) and is now § 330(a)(1): "or to the debtor's attorney."
The deletion created an apparent legislative drafting error. It left current § 330(a)(1) with a missing "or" that infects its grammar (i. e., "an examiner, [or] a professional person . . ."). Furthermore, the Act's inclusion of the word "attorney" in § 330(a)(1)(A) defeats the neat parallelism that otherwise marks the relationship between §§ 330(a)(1) and 330(a)(1)(A) (i. e., in § 330(a)(1): "trustee, . . . examiner, [or] professional person"; in § 330(a)(1)(A): "trustee, examiner, professional
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