Order authorizes bankruptcy trustee to sell debtor's interest in Oklahoma oil and gas leases free and clear of liens and encumbrances. Those liens and encumbrances shall attach to the sale proceeds and their priority and validity will be determined later

District court reversed order on plan confirmation, ruling that § 1126(c) excludes insiders' claims from a class when determining number and amount of acceptances. The case was remanded for consideration of additional objections to confirmation

A personal injury lawsuit that was pending against the debtor on the petition date falls under the Bankruptcy Act's definition of a "provable debt" and is therefore dischargeable

The bankruptcy court supplemented an oral ruling on adequate protection by clarifying that the payments should not be limited to the past but should continue indefinitely into the future because the value of the collateral will continue to decline

Court ruled that a lender was not entitled to relief from stay under section 1301(a) to pursue a non-debtor co-signer who received no proceeds or actual economic benefit from the loan. Moreover, the debtor is operating under a pay-in-full Chap. 13 plan

The district court affirmed the retention of special counsel to defend the individual partners of the debtor in various non-bankruptcy lawsuits. Representation was warranted because those lawsuits could conceivably affect the bankruptcy estate

The owners of a warehouse used by debtor were permitted to intervene in lawsuit concerning distribution of sale proceeds of debtor's property because they claim the fair rental value of the warehouse post-petition for storage of the property pending sale

Debtor's amended Chapter 13 plan could not be confirmed because it lacked good faith under sec. 1325(a)(3). Debtor proposed to pay only 26.6% of his excess income into the plan, failing to devote "all or most" of his excess income to payment of creditors

District court affirmed bankruptcy court's order of Dec. 27, 1979, holding non-dischargeable a debt for willful & malicious conversion of property where the debtor as buyer, through creative financing, deprived seller of a security interest worth $11,000

The structure of section 363(c)(3) allows for a preliminary hearing on the use of cash collateral to determine whether, at a final hearing on adequate protection as requested by a secured creditor, the debtor could reasonably be expected to prevail