Debtors converted certain collateral pre-petition and were unable to service debt for more than two years before filing bankruptcy. Court held that these actions, in and of themselves, do not amount to bad faith or other "cause" for granting stay relief

For purposes of a Chapter 13 plan, collateral should be valued as of the petition date because local and Eighth Circuit precedent establishes the petition date as the most relevant date for determining the respective rights of debtors and creditors

Debtors' amended disclosure statement could not be approved because it did not contain sufficient information about the debtors' business – their main source of income – such as its value and earnings projections, or about the treatment of claims.

The court denied the student loan creditor's motion for summary judgment because the discharge of student loans is a fact-intensive inquiry in which a debtor must prove that reasonable future financial resources will not be enough to repay the debt.

Under Rooker-Feldman doctrine, federal court has no subject-matter jurisdiction to review state court decision

Debtor was not entitled to a homestead exemption. He was single on the date he purchased the home and on the petition date. Although stepchildren and other relatives stayed with him periodically, he did not qualify as head of household under Nebraska law

Pre-petition, the government was setting off payments owed to the debtor against a debt owed by the debtor. The court held that a payment to be made post-petition pursuant to a pre-petition contract could be set off as a mutual pre-petition obligation

The debtor was not eligible to be a Chapter 13 debtor, so the filing of his petition did not commence a case. Because the original case was a nullity, there was no case or proceeding in existence and the debtor's motion to convert to Chapter 11 had to be

The debtors were found liable in state court for violations of state securities laws, with a specific finding of fraud. Even if the judgment, entered post-petition, was not final, it was nevertheless excepted from discharge under § 523(a)(19).